O livro de Job e a teologia da esperança

: apreciação do contributo de Françoise Mies

Abstract

The present study aims to delineate and understand how the Book of Job can be placed in the context of a theology of Hope without, however, losing its specificity in the whole of Biblical Revelation.
The hope in the book of Job is a hope in act, it is the hope of the character Job. According to F. Mies, the hope refers to the sense of movement, tension and inclination to something. Hope expresses an intentionality. This intentionality concerns the two senses of the movement: the first movement has to do with the verb itself “to expect” (I hope); the second movement or object refers to the noun “expectation” (what is expected). These movements can be seen both from the anthropological point of view and from the point of view of the
dynamics of the movement of hope.
The present study is divided in three great blocks: brief status quaestionis of the theology of hope; the book of Job on the horizon of a theology of hope; appreciation of the contribution of the work of F. Mies on the Book of Job. In short, we can note that this work of F.
Mies constitutes a significant landmark of current exegesis, in this field of studies of the Book of Job

Date of Award	29 May 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Luísa Maria Almendra (Supervisor)