{"id":4867,"date":"2005-10-23T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T12:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:15:27","slug":"latest_book_rea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4867","title":{"rendered":"Latest book read &#8220;the Doors of the Sea&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Most recent read is \u201cThe Doors of the Sea\u201d subtitled, \u201cWhere Was God in the Tsunami?\u201d It\u2019s written by an Eastern Orthodox theologian, David Bentley Hart. And it\u2019s a fine work that demands careful reading. I read and then re-read it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>It is short (109 pages), lyrical and literary. The title tells it all. Hart&#8217;s book is an expansion of an op ed piece he wrote entitled \u201cTremors of Doubt: What Kind of a God Would Allow a Deadly Tsunami?\u201d that was published in the Wall Street Journal, on the last day of the year in 2004. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Here\u2019s a link to the op ed piece, at opinionjournal.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/taste\/?id=110006097\">OpinionJournal &#8211; Taste<\/a> to give you a taste of the book. You may have to register to get on the site &#8211; it&#8217;s easy and free. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">The title &quot;The Doors of the Sea&quot; is a loose reference to Job, chapter 38.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most recent read is \u201cThe Doors of the Sea\u201d subtitled, \u201cWhere Was God in the Tsunami?\u201d It\u2019s written by an Eastern Orthodox theologian, David Bentley Hart. And it\u2019s a fine work that demands careful reading. I read and then re-read it.&nbsp; It is short (109 pages), lyrical and literary. The title tells it all. Hart&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9900,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/9900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}