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As news reports of the horrific tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof of either God's power or God's non-existence. Expanding on his "Wall Street Journal" piece, "Tremors of Doubt," published the last day of 2004, David Bentley Hart here returns to this pressing question: how can the existence of a good and loving God be reconciled with such suffering? Hart clarifies the biblical account of God's goodness, the nature of evil, and the shape of redemption, incisively revealing where both Christianity's champions and its critics misrepresent what is most essential to Christian belief. Though he responds to those skeptical of Christian faith, Hart is at his most perceptive and provocative as he examines Christian attempts to rationalize the tsunami disaster. Many people want a divine plan that will make sense of evil. Hart contends, however, that the history of suffering and death is not willed by God. Rather than appealing to a divine calculus that can account for every instance of suffering, Christians must recognize the ongoing struggle between the rebellious powers that enslave the world and the God who loves it.This meditation by a brilliant young theologian will deeply challenge serious readers grappling with God's ways in a suffering world.
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In that great verdant arc of lands that forms the north-eastern rim of the Indian Ocean and that takes the Bay of Bengal into its embrace - sweeping out from Sri Lanka and up the coasts of eastern India to Bangladesh and Burma, then down the Malay Peninsula to Thailand and Malaysia, and then further down the coast of Sumatra to the western tip of Java - there are Gods without number. Read the first page
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In that great verdant arc of lands that forms the north-eastern rim of the Indian Ocean and that takes the Bay of Bengal into its embrace - sweeping out from Sri Lanka and up the coasts of eastern India to Bangladesh and Burma, then down the Malay Peninsula to Thailand and Malaysia, and then further down the coast of Sumatra to the western tip of Java - there are Gods without number. Read the first page
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