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David Bentley Hart - Suffering and the problem of evil

Theologian

David Bentley Hart


Duration

6.21


Uploaded to YouTube

8 April 2011

Added to Database

18 October 2025


YouTube description

In an interview with CPX (a Christian organization based in North Sydney, Australia), extremely erudite Eastern Orthodox theologian and philosopher David Bentley Hart shares a few thoughts on suffering and the problem of evil. He does so from the perspective outlined in his book, The Doors of the Sea, which was written in the aftermath of and in direct view of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

The book can be purchased here:

http://www.amazon.com/Doors-Sea-Where-Was-Tsunami/dp/0802829767/

The following article (reposted in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake) is more or less a rough reiteration of the central ideas presented in the book:

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/01/tsunami-and-theodicy

[note: CPX is the original creator of this video, not me. I am reposting it for others' edification. For more information, please go to www.publicchristianity.org]