Mysterious Ways
How do Christians explain a tsunami?
BY PAUL J. GRIFFITHS
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
The tsunami that swept over southeast Asia in December left in its wake not only death and destruction but a profound and vexing puzzle. What kind of a God would allow such a thing to happen? In the weeks and months that followed, skeptical commentators posed this question with irritated insistence, as if discovering for the first time--thanks to the sheer scale of the tsunami's devastation--that we live in a world that may inflict grave harm with seeming randomness.
In "The Doors of the Sea," David Bentley Hart, an Orthodox theologian, tries to provide an answer. His book is, among much else, a rhetorically powerful and conceptually dense restatement of what Christianity has to say, over the centuries, about the suffering and death produced by nature itself--that is, by events outside human agency.
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Thursday, August 04, 2005
Some Interesting Theology
This actually a book review of a very enticing sounding read for myself and fellow Christians on how we interprete the Great Tsunami of last year. It sounds like one of those books that you read page by page thinking deeply and slowly over the words.This is from yesterday's Opinion Journal.
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