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Proclaiming the Incomprehensible God: Calvin’s Teaching on Job is unavailable, but you can change that!

For many of us the book of Job stands directly in the center of one of the most complicated problems of life— the interaction between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Its implications for a world of suffering and injustice is one that has provoked much tortuous thought for both Calvinists and Arminians. How Job deals with tremendous suffering—losing most of his earthly possessions,...

For it is not right for men unrestrainedly to search out things that the Lord has willed to be hid in himself, and to unfold from eternity itself the sublimest wisdom, which he would have us revere but not understand, that through this also he should fill us with wonder. He has set forth by his Word the secrets of his will that he decided to reveal to us. These he decided to reveal insofar as he foresaw that they would concern us and benefit us (Institutes III.xxi.1) [CO 2:680]. For not
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