Mostly, he selects obscure words with precisely nuanced meanings that are more accurate to his meaning than a plain-English alternative would be. His writing is stunning, his explication of Christian theology on the question of evil is nearly perfect, but I found myself reaching for a dictionary on just about every other page.Ĭuriously, I found that Hart isn't suffering from "twenty-dollar-word syndrome" like so many bad writers with good vocabularies do.
As a book, its one fatal flaw is Hart's expansive vocabulary. Short, smart, and thorough, Doors of the Sea is easily one of the best works on the market to tackle theodicy from a Christian vantage point (roughly, Christian theodicy posits answers to the question "if God is real, good, loving, and powerful, why is there evil and suffering in the world?").
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