This brilliant book, now in paperback, is one long hymn of praise for the grandeur and beauty of nature, its extraordinary powers of creativity and destruction, the abiding dwelling place of the divine presence. The startling title derives from the Book of Job, whose chapters 38-41 Elizabeth Johnson describes as the longest piece of writing on the natural world in the Bible. When Job challenges God, he is advised to seek an answer to his questions from the whole of Creation, for all life on the planet forms one community. This shift from an anthropocentric to a cosmocentric perspective has not been given enough import­ance in traditional Christian theology.Johnson presents an engaging, lucid exposition of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and then develops a breathtaking new theolog