Answer to Job vs Reflections on the Psalms: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Answer to Job Answer to Job Carl Gustav Jung · 1952 ★★★★☆ 3.8 194 pages · ≈ 3 h 36 m · Challenging

Considered one of Jung's most controversial works, Answer to Job also stands as Jung's most extensive commentary on a biblical text. Here, he confronts the story of the man who challenged God, the man who experienced…

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Cover of Reflections on the Psalms Reflections on the Psalms C. S. Lewis · 1958 ★★★★☆ 4.2 128 pages · ≈ 2 h 22 m · Challenging

"I write," the author says, "as one amateur to another, talking about the difficulties I have met, or lights I have gained, with the hope that this might at any rate interest, and sometimes even help, other inexpert…

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Answer to JobReflections on the Psalms
Hardcover 2.8 (2) 4.1 (15)
Google Books — 4.0 (4)
Apple Books — 4.5 (28)

Reception

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Ratings 2 28
Editions 17 15
Film adaptations 1 1
Wikipedia attention 2058 139
Pages 194 128

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