What’s So Amazing About Grace?
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Philip Yancey offers compelling, right portraits of grace’s life-changing power. He searches for the presence of grace in his own life and in the church. He questions, How can Christians contend graciously with moral issues that threaten all they hold dear? And he challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know.Amazon.com Review
Mention the word “grace” and what immediately comes to mind for most of us is a bagpipe wailing the solemn notes of “Incredible Grace.”
The grace of which Philip Yancey writes is the freely agreed and unmerited favor and like of God. This grace seems a remote, nearly sentimental concept, lacking a place in our lives or our society. It is a vague, slippery thing to us, probably because we seem to experience grace so rarely and have managed to leech the word of meaning. But Philip Yancey has set about to rescue grace in his book What’s So Incredible About Grace?
This grace is the right message of Jesus. All faiths have virtues and creeds and justice and truth, but Jesus speaks merely of getting the like that God has for us. Long-suffering it, not earning it or building ourselves worthy of it. And frankly, long-suffering something we have not earned or are not worthy of is not an simple thing for most of us.
In truth, grace is both utterly simple and utterly confounding. Small by small, Yancey guides us into a clearer understanding of grace by using tales, in much the same way Jesus did. We read tales of both grace and ungrace at work in people’s lives. Sadly, it is tales of ungrace that are more prevalent today, the current culture wars painful acknowledgments of ungrace in our lives as Christians in this country. Yancey helps us know that ungrace is that state of being in which self-virtue and pride are a result of thinking that we have somehow earned God’s praise and may now stand in judgment in his behalf.
Philip Yancey was awarded the Gold Medallion Christian Book of the Year award for this book in 1998 by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Readers concurred with this choice, building this book an immediate bestseller. Believers and nonbelievers alike should accept Yancey’s challenge to become agents of grace rather than agents of vengeance or judgment or rage. In truth, we are each starving for grace, ready to grasp it tightly. And it is through grace that all additional hungers–for justice, for virtue, for like–are satisfied. Yancey opens his book by telling us that “grace” is the last best word, and in What’s So Incredible About Grace?, he proves that he’s right. –Patricia Klein
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This book exemplifies the questionable attitude that what ever you do, you can be forgiven if you question for grace. This means that if Adolf Hitler, in the last nanosecond of his life sought grace he would go to heaven despite all of his horrible crimes against humanity whereas a Jewish person who had no need for Jesus would automatically go to hell despite his heap excellent deeds. This attitude seems to be a case of all-or-nothing thinking, an elementary cognitive distortion that seems to be rampant with fundamentalist Christ-ians like Yancey.
Jesus never claimed divinity it was only when Saint Paul and some additional followers chose to promote him as such. It was a sophomoric effort to dumb down the religion (Judaism) to attract the most followers. By resorting to hocus-pocus, Christianity became Christ-inanity.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is a treachery of Jesus and all he stood for. No, Jesus was not a bigot like Mr. Yancey, nor a literal-minded fundamentalist who became so consumed with minutiae that he lost sight of the huge picture. Mr. Yancey pompously defends his stance against Mel White whom he calls a friend. With friends like Mr. Yancey, who needs enemies? Not Jesus!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I read this book for a church book study class and was momentously disappointed in its political, rather than spiritual focus. I also take exception to the frequent use of the axiom “despise the sin; like the sinner” to clarify a supposedly “Christian” way of dealing with prejudice against homosexuals and women who seek abortion. Who are we to declare that they are “sinners”??? I wish I never read this book. The leader’s constant negative examples of churches and people was a real downer. There is so much beauty and positive energy in the world, especially in churches and people, why constantly tell tales about the negative?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Yancy is just a blowhard bigot with no credentials as a scholar or an intellectual. C.S. Lewis or Francis Schaeffer, well loved scholars but by no means intellectuals, tower over Yancy. He would be the very LAST person to know Grace!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is certainly out of sync with modern Christian theology, specifically Hans K!ung. It is poorly written and lacks adequate documentation. Yancey possesses not even the most rudimentary reasoning skills. Only a confirmed believer could agree with everything he says.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5