The Comforting Whirlwind God, Job, and the Scale of Creation
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
10.12.2026
Verlag
Bloomsbury AcademicSeitenzahl
112
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/2,5 cm
Gewicht
454 g
Auflage
2nd edition
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798216471899
Acclaimed environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben turns to the biblical Book of Job to confront the deepest assumptions driving the modern environmental crisis. The Book of Job dismantles assumptions of human mastery, offering a theology of humility that directly challenges extractive attitudes and motivates environmental activism grounded in restraint and responsibility. McKibben challenges the belief that economic growth and technological mastery can secure our future on a finite planet.
This paperback edition of a classic, originally published in 1994, features a new preface that speaks directly to the escalating realities of climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and ecological collapse--and how we can respond. McKibben weaves contemporary environmental science together with Stephen Mitchell's luminous translation of Job, showing how ancient Scripture offers a radical corrective to human hubris. Job's God does not explain suffering or reward progress; instead, God reveals a world whose value exceeds human utility and whose balance cannot be endlessly manipulated.
With characteristic clarity and moral urgency, McKibben argues that unchecked development is not merely misguided but lethal-an accelerating process of "decreation" that threatens the integrity of the planet and the future of humanity itself. Against this destructive orthodoxy, he calls for humility, restraint, and a renewed sense of responsibility grounded in awe for the more-than-human world.
Written in McKibben's signature lyrical prose, The Comforting Whirlwind is both a work of religious interpretation and a call to environmental action. It invites general readers, people of faith, environmental activists, and those interested in religion and science to rethink humanity's place in creation-and to recognize that survival depends not on domination, but on reverence.
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