The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation - Softcover

Mckibben, .

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1561012343 ISBN 13: 9781561012343

Publisher: Cowley Publications, 2005

Synopsis

In The Comforting Whirlwind, Bill McKibben turns to the biblical book of Job to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new paradigm for living if we hope to reverse the current trend of ecological destruction.

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Review:

Bill McKibben is one of the truly original thinkers writing today. He questions what everyone else takes for granted and finds fresh insight in the unlikeliest places. It surprises me not at all that he has plumbed the depths of Job to find wisdom everyone else has overlooked.--Philip Yancey

McKibben urges . . . an approach to nature that is grounded in joyous celebration of its wonder and beauty as well as in a humbler perception of our place in it. . . . A powerful statement.

In his usual firm, clear prose and his usual firm, tough logic, Bill McKibben has restated the only message worth stating at all: overcoming the orthodoxy that places us at the center. Either we heed him or we perish.--Kirkpatrick Sale "Publishers Weekly "

McKibben's book is . . . a very good one. He offers a good analysis of the biblical text, draws out its theology, and then relates the book of Job to a modern problem. He is able to show how the one can inform the other in an inspiring way.--Biblical Theology Bulletin, Spring 2008

From the Back Cover:

Pointing to the now-familiar consequences of our self-centered environmental practices--the greenhouse effect, the ozone hole, and deforestation--Bill McKibben's mix of modern science and biblical wisdom forces us to acknowledge that growth and economic progress are not only undesirable but downright deadly. If we continue to press the pace of development, we will very soon complete the 'decreation' of our planet, destroying everything on it, including ourselves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cowley Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1561012343
• ISBN 13: 9781561012343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86