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Review Summary: Excellent book |
Date: 2008-10-23 |
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Details: Excellent book not only about being disappointed with God but also about our perspective of who God is. A great read with interesting insight and experience from the author. |
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Review Summary: post modern presentation of Biblically sound faith struggle |
Date: 2008-10-03 |
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Details: Philip Yancey accurately describes the contemporary human struggle to hang on to a faith based on the God of Scripture, while undergoing the pain of total spiritual darkness and suffering. This struggle is as classic as the Book of Job and as modern as the lonliness of Mother Teresa. Yancey's book is easy to read and avoids the pitfalls of psychological and theological terminology. This is an essential read for the thinking or suffering person of Faith. Richard W. Hammer |
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Review Summary: Delivers substantive answers to tough questions |
Date: 2008-10-01 |
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Details: Yancey's work here is sincere and honest. He neither pulls punches nor sugarcoats the issues. His straightforward approach is complemented by his skill as a writer, both in style and content. The first part of the book is a theological diatribe about the nature of the human condition, the silence of God, the reality of natural disasters, God's seeming inactivity against evil, etc. The second part of the book approaches these topics through the lens of the biblical story of Job. In both parts of the book, Yancey is direct and objective. There are some extremely powerful moments in this book, particularly in the final chapter, when Yancey pulls back the curtain on some events in his own life. Highly recommended. |
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Review Summary: After the Bible, One of the Most Important Books I Have Read |
Date: 2008-08-20 |
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Details: I read this book after receiving it from a Jewish friend who had converted to Christianity, and who found it very useful for himself. I put it on the shelf as I had too many books that I had not finished already. I finally got to reading it years later, when I found myself, a lifelong Christian, very disappointed with God. I wasn't disappointed with Him because I'd lost my mother at a young age, or faced many other difficulties in life, but because for the first time in my life, I was faced with a problem that I couldn't easily overcome: the aftermath of a sinus surgery that left me much worse than before, and with no end in sight to my physical misery. Getting a spiritual perspective to my physical torment was essential, and reading this book, as much as anything else I've done, has helped me a great deal. I'm still battling to get healthy again nine years later, but I still draw strength from this book.
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Review Summary: If you think God is unfair, hidden, or silent, then you need to read this book |
Date: 2008-08-06 |
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Details: The death rate for humans is 100%. The rate of suffering is 100%. In fact, if you are fortunate enough to live to an old age, you will have probably endured much pain and suffering in your lifetime and you may very well suffer some more as you approach physical death. Why is that? Why did God design the world this way? Isn't this unfair? These were some of the questions I asked after watching my father endure a debilitating stroke which took away the life as he knew it, even though he survived the stroke.
I was really happy to see Philip Yancey's book in the Kindle edition because Yancey is my favorite author. I knew he would apply sound thinking and Biblical understanding. And indeed, Yancey does not disappoint (no pun intended). He attempts to answer three basic questions: 1) Is God unfair? 2) Is God hidden? 3) Is God silent?
Yancey thoughtfully addresses these issues through interviews with others and his own dedicated study of the nature of God throughout the Bible. Job plays a prominent role here. Even though Job loses everything and is angry with God and confronts God, he never loses faith. One of Yancey's interviewees, who has gone through more than his fair share of suffering says, "Life may be unfair, but God is not." He says that he has learned to see beyond the present physical reality and toward the spiritual reality. Life was not fair to Jesus -- here was the best and most righteous man in history who was summarily tortured and executed, suffering a horrible death. Yet justice ultimately prevailed through the triumph of the resurrection.
This is just a little hint of what Yancey has to say about this age-old subject. It certainly helped me think through these issues in my life. |
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