The Doors of the Sea

is a short book from 2005 about theodicy and the problem of evil by David Bentley Hart, an Orthodox Christian philosopher and religious studies scholar.

This book was published after the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean when Hart wrote a column in The Wall Street Journal that attracted wide attention.

In The Hedgehog Review, writer and professor Eugene McCarraher calls The Doors of the Sea "a ferocious attack on theodicy in the wake of the previous year’s tsunami.

A September 20, 2005 review by Tom D'Evelyn in The Christian Science Monitor called the book "timely, eloquent, and unfashionable" with arguments that "are missing from public debate.

"[5] On December 5, 2005, a review by Cindy Crosby for Christianity Today concluded: Hart also takes aim at theologies that argue that suffering reveals divine attributes and allows us to share in Christ's afflictions.