Where Was God in the Tsunami?

Good Questions Lynette. I just finished reading The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? by David Bentley Hart. I highly, highly recommend this book. Short but quite dense, this little book is a breath of fresh air. Don’t let the length fool you (about 100 pages) it is a difficult but very rewarding read. It is hands down the best thing I’ve ever read about the problem of evil and suffering. Calvinist will have a hard time with his critique of the the Reformed tradition and the traditional Calvinistic understanding of God’s Sovereignty. Open theists will have a difficult time with Hart defending the classic divine attributes and the way he relies heavily on the important distinction between what God wills and what God permits. Conservative and liberal modernists alike will most likely have a hard time with how serious Hart is about the cosmological view of the New Testament and and the reality of evil principalities. This should be required seminary reading. I wont tell you too much more than that because I my hope is you will check it out for yourself.

Shalom,
Wayne