The Doors of the Sea

The Doors of the Sea

Cover for The Doors of the Sea with Eerdmans (2005)
Author	David Bentley Hart
Language	English
Genre	theology, theodicy, problem of evil, natural evil
Publisher	Eerdmans
Publication date	January 2005
Publication place	United States
ISBN	978-0-8028-6686-8

The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? is a short book from 2005 about theodicy and the problem of evil by David Bentley Hart, an Orthodox Christian philosopher and religious studies scholar. This book was published after the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean when Hart wrote a column in The Wall Street Journal that attracted wide attention.^[1] Bill Eerdmans, of Eerdmans Publishing, contacted Hart and asked him to expand the column into a book which Hart did. The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? has been described by writer and Episcopal priest Fleming Rutledge in Christianity Today as "the most useful short treatment of the problem of evil and suffering that we have."^[2]