All Things Wise and Wonderful
A Christian Understanding of How and Why Things Happen, in Light of COVID-19
- Science & Faith
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
The Covid-19 pandemic provoked many questions. It is human nature to want to know how and why things happen. The sovereign God has created a beautiful, intricate world in which multiple factors interact to cause an event. We are called to properly understand creation, but often fail because we tend to be lazy, fearful, and self-serving. We make judgments based on (often incorrect) assumptions about cause-and-effect relations, and we seek reassuring explanations for both trivial and serious events. Christians have the added complication of figuring out God's role in making things happen. All Things Wise and Wonderful examines what the Bible and Christian theology say about cause and effect, how science views causation in the world, and how human mind-brains judge causation. Using illustrations from everyday life, it offers guidance for Christians to think and act wisely with respect to how and why things happen in creation.
Endorsements (3)
“Challenging times prompt thoughtful people to ask challenging questions. For believers in God, Covid-19 prompts many to wonder why a loving God doesn’t prevent the death, sickness, and harm so many experience. Janet Warren offers a plausible answer. Drawing from science, theology, and plain common sense, Warren provides an account of providence that portrays God as loving in a pandemic. I recommend this book!”
“Set against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic, this unusual and important book is about causation and how causation affects our everyday life of experience. Using information from many different disciplines, the author’s approach is thoughtful and carefully nuanced. Too often Christians arrive at over-simplistic conclusions about what happens in their lives, sometimes leading to outcomes that are pastorally damaging. This book is full of practical wisdom for the general reader and is warmly recommended.”
“If you are realizing that much of life’s complexities cannot be easily answered on black-and-white terms but are not quite sure where to look, Janet Warren will be a sure guide. The wisdom we need exceeds the technical rationality that is useful for some things but cannot solve our big problems while such wisdom also provides us with a grounding to appreciate what is wondrous about God’s creation as we attend in faithfulness to the important things that matter in our various stations—this is the gift of All Things Wise and Wonderful that I commend to you!”
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