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What's So Amazing About Grace?

by Philip Yancey

ISBN: 0310213274
ISBN-13: 9780310213277
Format: Hardcover

Summary

An exploration into the Christian notion of grace by the author of the best-selling "The Jesus I Never Knew". From a theological perspective, grace may be defined as the power of divine love and protection. The author believes grace is directly related to Christian love and the elimination of evil through forgiveness.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Zondervan
Published date: 1997
Size: 6.25 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.2 pounds

Publisher's Notes

In What's So Amazing About Grace? award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace at street level. If grace is God's love for the undeserving, he asks, then what does it look like in action? And if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? Yancey sets grace in the midst of life's stark images, tests its mettle against horrific "ungrace". Can grace survive in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust? Can it triumph over the brutality of the Ku Klux Klan? Should any grace at all be shown to the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed and cannibalized seventeen young men? In his most personal and provocative book ever, Yancey offers compelling, true portraits of grace's life-changing power. He searches for its presence in his own life and in the church. He asks, How can Christians contend graciously with moral issues that threaten all they hold dear?

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