The English writer, G.K. Chesterton, once said about the Book of Job:
"Job does not in any sense look at life in a gloomy way. If wishing to be happy and being quite ready to be happy constitutes an optimist, Job is an optimist. He is a perplexed optimist; he is an exasperated optimist; he is an outraged and insulted optimist....He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
What do you think Chesterton means by calling Job a "perplexed optimist"? What is an optimist? What does Chesterton's analysis imply about the importance of doubt and suffering for any optimist?
