When Old Answers Stop Working: Ecclesiastes on Doubt, Disappointment, and Faith After Certainty
Live class and Q&A on monday, october 26th from 8:00-9:30pm ET
When Old Answers Stop Working: Ecclesiastes on Doubt, Disappointment, and Faith After Certainty
Did you know there’s a book in the Bible whose main voice is in full-blown faith-crisis mode for twelve chapters? Now you do. His name—or at least his pen name—is Qoheleth, and the book is Ecclesiastes. He looks at life, death, work, wisdom, and even God and asks: What’s the point? Why care? So if you’ve ever been mad at God, wondered what any of this is for, or found that the old answers just don’t work anymore, Ecclesiastes might be your new best friend.
This class includes:
One-night live class
Live Q+A session
Link to class recording
Downloadable class slides
Cost: PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Topics we’ll cover:
Why Ecclesiastes belongs in the Bible and what its presence says about doubt, disappointment, and questioning God as part of a life of faith.
Who Qoheleth is and the world behind Ecclesiastes, including why this strange voice sounds like Solomon and why the book may have emerged during a time of profound upheaval.
Ecclesiastes’ relentless confrontation with life’s absurdity—when hard work, wisdom, doing the right thing, and even faith don’t seem to deliver what we thought they would.
Death, meaning, and the limits of control—and why facing our mortality leads Qoheleth to ask what, if anything, makes a human life worthwhile.
How to live when you can’t figure God out—Ecclesiastes’ surprising invitation to enjoy the life you have and keep trusting God without pretending everything makes sense.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Pete Enns
Dr. Peter Enns (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Abram S. Clemens professor of biblical studies at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous books, including The Bible Tells Me So, The Sin of Certainty, and Curveball. He’s also the co-founder and podcast co-host at The Bible for Normal People.
