Creation Untamed: The Bible, God, and Natural Disasters

Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes have plagued the history of the earth. What is God's role in natural disasters and the human suffering they cause? This is one of the most vexing questions in Christian life and theology. Terence Fretheim offers fresh readings of familiar Old Testament passages--such as creation, the flood, and the suffering of Job--to give readers biblical resources for working through this topic. He shows the God of the Bible to be a compassionate, suffering, relational God, one we can turn to in prayer in times of disaster.

Author: Terence E. Fretheim
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 09/01/2010
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.58w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780801038938

Review Citation(s):
Christianity Today 10/01/2010 pg. 64

About the Author
Terence E. Fretheim (1936-2020; ThD, Princeton Theological Seminary) was Elva B. Lovell Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Luther Seminary, where he taught for forty-five years. He is the author of more than twenty books, including commentaries on Genesis, Exodus, First and Second Kings, and Jeremiah and God and World in the Old Testament, The Suffering of God, and The Pentateuch.