Creation Untamed: The Bible, God, and Natural Disasters
Subtitle: the Bible, God, and natural disasters
By: Terence E. Fretheim.
Series: Theological explorations for the Church Catholic
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780801038938
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Job -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Natural disasters -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Description: The Bible often speaks of natural disasters, but its insights have been insufficiently explored. Terence Fretheim offers fresh readings of familiar Old Testament passages--creation, the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, the plagues of Egypt, the suffering of Job, and the biblical laments--to provide biblical resources for working through this topic. He presents an understanding of creation as good, but not perfect; examines the human experience of suffering; and explores the role of humans in the creative process. Fretheim shows the God of the Bible to be a compassionate, suffering, relational God, one we can turn to in prayer in times of disaster. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: God created the world good, not perfect; title: The God of the flood story and natural disasters; title: Natural disasters, the will of the Creator, and the suffering of Job; title: Suffering and the God of the Old Testament; title: God, faith, and the practice of prayer.