Research has expanded the notion of attachment to caregivers other figures such as God, and there is now literature supporting positive effects God with various psychosocial outcomes. The dimensions God—anxiety avoidance—reflect varying ways that people see supportive reliable versus unsupportive inconsistent. As a stable aspect individual, results in recurring patterns interpersonal behavior c...

Fakultetsopponent: Biträdande professor Simon Matti, institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, avdelningen för samhällsvetenskap vid Luleå tekniska universitet.

This article studies the function of the ‘fear of God’ idea in the book of Job. It is argued that, despite the difference in terminology, the ‘fear of God’ is equivalent to the ‘fear of the LORD’ concept of Proverbs. The location of the motif in the final form of the book of Job suggests that the ‘fear of God’ is not being proposed as the answer to Job’s dilemma. Rather, Job is one who maintain...

During the several thousand years of Jewish history, much has been written about the nature of the Jewish concept of God. This brief section is a summary of some of the major themes. There are different definitions of the concept of "God." We do not all mean the same thing when we use the word God, even with a capital "G." While there are some similarities in the Jewish and Christian beliefs ab...