Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 13 -- Hydrotheology/Theohydrology
Johann Albert Fabricius (1668-1736), a Lutheran, wrote
Hydrotheologie (1734), a three-part treatise on the interaction
within the whole of nature.
The owners of water, his nature, its quantity, the depth of the
sea, the mixtures of water with other substances.
The wise and liberal dispensation of Water in the world, the
rivers, lakes, ponds, the water underground and the human
exploitation thereof.
The movement of water in the air, in the sea and in rivers and its
use in cooking, boiling, distillation and perspiration.
Hydrology is anthropocentric, the means by which God has
chosen to sustain His people.
John Wesley (1703-1791), the evangelist known for his advocacy
of Methodism, also applied his prodigious preaching skill to the
subject of earth science. Based on the Almighty finding the earth
and all created things "very good," Wesley declared in a 1750
sermon that no one can deny that "sin is the moral cause of
earthquakes, whatever their natural cause may be."
Regarding the provision of water on the land, Wesley’s attributed
the larger role to evaporation.
That the vapour rising from the sea, are more than sufficient to
supply both the surface of the earth, and the rivers with water.
That the mountains, by their particular structure, arrest the
vapors that float in the atmosphere, and having collected them
in their reservoirs, dismiss them again through their sides, either
in perpetual or intermitting currents.
But, cognizant of Ecclesiastes, Wesley’s A Survey of the Wisdom or God in Creation (1763)
added,
And yet we need not deny, that some springs may arise from the sea, or the great abyss, those
in particular, which at all times afford the same quantity of water.
Once again, the ancient tale.
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