The release date for the English version of 'What's So Amazing About Grace?' by
Philip Yancey is Feb 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Original ISBN 0310245656 Cover Edition
Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter were buried under five feet of debris in 1987 when an IRA bomb went off. Only Gordon lived. I apologized. "I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge," he remarked in reference to the bombers. I will ask God to pardon them tonight and every night after that. His remarks attracted the attention of the media, and from one man's sorrow, the world saw a glimmer of grace. The main characteristic of the church is grace. Because only grace can infuse a jaded world with hope and change, it is the one thing that the world cannot replicate and the one thing that it desires above all else.
In Grace: What's So Amazing? Philip Yancey, an award-winning author, examines grace in everyday life. He wonders, if grace is God's love extended to the unworthy, then what does grace really look like? And how are we doing at bestowing grace on a world that knows much more brutality and unforgiveness than charity, if Christians are its only providers? Yancey challenges grace's endurance against horrifying "ungrace" while establishing grace amid life's harsh visuals. 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? According to Yancey, grace values the sinner but does not absolve sin. Real grace is startling and controversial. It shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to sinners and touching them with mercy and hope. It forgives the unfaithful spouse, the racist, the child abuser. It loves today's AIDS-ridden addict as much as the tax collector of Jesus' day.
In his most intimate and thought-provoking book to date, Yancey presents gripping, authentic accounts of the transformative power of grace. He searches for its presence in his own life and in the church. How, he wonders, can Christians deal with moral dilemmas that jeopardize all they value in a gracious manner? And he challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know, What's So Amazing About Grace?