with a greek half-yearly in 2 days, a sermon to write, and countless hours of reading and hebrew paradigms to do, i thought i'd buy and read this book. it's based on a newspaper article he wrote a couple of days after the asian tsunami, and in light of reading the beauty of the infinite, i wanted to see the way an eastern orthodox theologian dealt with the complex question of suffering in the midst of a sovereign God. i read the first couple of chapters last night. i'm not going to get much work done this week...
UPDATE (22/5/08): i forgot to mention that you can read a fair portion of this book on google books, here
happy procrastinating!
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Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt'?
~ Job 38:8-11
Does he say anything about theodicy in Job after the excerpt?
not just yet.
p5 "the ocean breaks from its confines with annihilating power, and God - it seems - does not stay its waves."
i think he's getting there. but first he has to dispel any previously held understanding of theodicy, how God-and-the-world is, and how God-and-the-world isn't.
stay tuned!
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