Answer to Job

Carl Jung reads the Book of Job as a landmark in the divine drama of Christianity, the first time criticism of God is contemplated. He argues that Job, though he submitted to Yahweh's omnipotence, proved more moral and conscious than a God incited by Satan to torment him without cause, and that this scandal required God to unite with humanity. In his reading, Christ is sent as a sacrifice in repentance for God's own wrongs, a sign of God's psychological development. Turning to Ezekiel, Enoch and above all Revelation, Jung considers how God's dark side might also become incarnate. He called the 1952 work pure poison, and it remains among his most controversial books.

Jordan B. Peterson included it among the suggested readings for Maps of Meaning.