Episode 135 Broken Planet
Broken Planet is the title of a new book by Sharon Dirckx (PhD, Cambridge) with InterVarsity Press (2023).
The subtitle describes the question she hopes to address: If There’s a God, Then Why Are There Natural Disasters and Diseases? She joins David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcast to talk about her most recent book.
Who is Sharon Dirckx, author of Broken Planet?
Sharon Dirckx is a freelance speaker and author who occasionally teaches courses for OCCA, The Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics.
She has been with us before on this podcast and has lectured at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston in November 2022.
Links to those episodes and to her other books are below.
While her PhD from Cambridge is in brain imaging, Dr. Dirckx has turned her attention to our broken planet.
She and her husband live in Oxford, UK
Are we living on a Broken Planet?
A great deal of suffering is caused by natural disasters: tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, pandemics, and other catastrophes.
How do we account for such disasters if there is a God who is all powerful? Is our planet broken or is this the best of all possible worlds as some regard it?
It is one thing to make a case for the origin and impact of moral evil or “man’s inhumanity to man.”
But it’s quite another to talk about the planet itself as being our home and our nemesis.
Dirckx mixes her own style of apologetic argument with stories of people who suffered and survived to create a compelling book.
This podcast captures a bit of her book and aims to help readers deal with those tragedies not caused by humans.
Click here to watch Sharon Dirckx’s lecture at the Lanier Theological library, on her second book, Am I Just My Brain.
Watch a short video here of Sharon discussing the topic, Can you be a credible scientist and believe in God.
For Sharon’s Podcast’s on her book, Am I Just My Brain, click here.
More books by Sharon Dirckx
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