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Taken from the author’s Gold Medallion Award-winning book, this abridged audio cassette edition is an insightful exploration of grace, the most powerful force in the universe and our only hope for love and forgiveness. Read by Philip Yancey. Two abridged audio cassettes.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 “Amazing Grace.” The grace of which Philip Yancey writes is the freely given and unmerited favor and love of God. This grace seems a remote, almost sentimental concept, without a place in our lives or our society. It is a vague, slippery thing to us, probably because we seem to experience gra… More >>
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This book exemplifies the questionable attitude that what ever you do, you can be forgiven if you ask 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 myriad good 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 other followers decided 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.
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Yancy is just a blowhard bigot with no credentials as a scholar or an intellectual. C.S. Lewis or Francis Schaeffer, popular scholars but by no means intellectuals, tower over Yancy. He would be the very LAST person to understand Grace!
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This book is a betrayal 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 big 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!
Rating: 1 / 5
I read this book for a church book study class and was greatly disappointed in its political, rather than spiritual focus. I also take exception to the frequent use of the phrase “hate the sin; love the sinner” to describe 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 author’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 stories about the negative?
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is definitely 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.
Rating: 1 / 5