An Act of God?

An Act of God?
Author: Erwin W. Lutzer
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1414369948

How can we begin to understand or explain the tough questions about world disasters? Should we question if God is in control of major disasters, or even ask if he caused them? How do we answer the probing questions of non-Christians? How can God be considered good and just in light of the tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, and floods that are visited on his creation and his children? An updated, timely, and even more accessible edition of Where Was God? by Erwin Lutzer, bestselling author and senior pastor of The Moody Church, An Act of God? is a faith journey discussion about these and other life dilemmas.

Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories

Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories
Author: Dónal P. O’Mathúna
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319927221

This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise in relation to disasters can be addressed from a number of fundamental normative approaches in moral and political philosophy. This book sets the stage for more focused normative debates given that no one book can be completely comprehensive. Providing analysis of core concepts, and with real-world relevance, this book should be of interest to disaster scholars and researchers, those working in ethics and political philosophy, as well as policy makers, humanitarian actors and intergovernmental organizations..

Tornado God

Tornado God
Author: Peter J. Thuesen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2020
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190680288

One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstition and predicted they would pass away as humans became more scientifically and theologically sophisticated. But in America, scientific and theological hubris came face-to-face with the tornado, nature's most violent windstorm. Striking the United States more than any other nation, tornadoes have consistently defied scientists' efforts to unlock their secrets. Meteorologists now acknowledge that even the most powerful computers will likely never be able to predict a tornado's precise path. Similarly, tornadoes have repeatedly brought Americans to the outer limits of theology, drawing them into the vortex of such mysteries as how to reconcile suffering with a loving God and whether there is underlying purpose or randomness in the universe. In this groundbreaking history, Peter Thuesen captures the harrowing drama of tornadoes, as clergy, theologians, meteorologists, and ordinary citizens struggle to make sense of these death-dealing tempests. He argues that, in the tornado, Americans experience something that is at once culturally peculiar (the indigenous storm of the national imagination) and religiously primal (the sense of awe before an unpredictable and mysterious power). He also shows that, in an era of climate change, the weather raises the issue of society's complicity in natural disasters. In the whirlwind, Americans confront the question of their own destiny-how much is self-determined and how much is beyond human understanding or control.

Prodigals and Those Who Love Them

Prodigals and Those Who Love Them
Author: Ruth Bell Graham
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2008-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441200347

Ruth Bell Graham knew about prodigals--two of her five children were spiritual wanderers. This is not a "how to" book that dispenses easy advice on ways to win back a prodigal. Instead, it is a collection of readings one woman turned to for comfort when her children wandered from God. It shows how Graham's faith persevered and grew regardless of the outcome of her prodigals' stories. Part One introduces readers to five prodigals who "returned to the father." Part Two offers comfort and encouragement through Scripture, poems, hymns, prayers, and more. Readers will be touched by the honest feelings of pain, frustration, and uncertainty Graham expresses so eloquently. And they will share in the lessons she learned about God's sovereignty and ultimate peace. Now beautifully repackaged, Prodigals and Those Who Love Them brings peace and hope to all parents of "wayward" children.

Acts of God

Acts of God
Author: Theodore Steinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2006-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195309683

This revised edition features a new chapter analyzing the failed response to Hurricane Katrina. Steinberg argues that it is wrong to see natural disasters as random outbursts of nature or expressions of divine judgment. He reveals how business and government decisions have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property.

Can God Intervene?

Can God Intervene?
Author: Gary Stern
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release:
Genre: Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
ISBN:

Creation Untamed

Creation Untamed
Author: Terence E. Fretheim
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2010-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0801038936

A leading Old Testament theologian addresses one of the most vexing questions in Christian life and theology: What is God's role in natural disasters?

Does God Send Natural Disasters?

Does God Send Natural Disasters?
Author: Troy J. Edwards
Publisher: Troy Edwards
Total Pages: 217
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1540481565

Many of our theologians have told us that God is the responsible agent for all of the natural evil that we suffer. These theologians and philosophers are not without their “Biblical” proof-texts. For them, Sodom and Gomorrah, the flood of Noah, the plagues of Egypt, the trials of Job, the end time events of the book of Revelation and other historical accounts recorded in Scripture provide sufficient evidence that God is behind most, if not all, natural disasters. This book will show us that by understanding how the “permissive idiom” of the Ancient Eastern and Hebrew cultures was used to describe God’s actions, we can get a fresh perspective of God’s place in many of the natural disasters in Scripture that were attributed to Him. We will then see a loving God who is not destructive but actually does all that He can to save men from destruction without violating their freedom.

Sent to Earth

Sent to Earth
Author: Michael Harold Brown
Publisher: Queenship Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9781579181475