What's So Amazing About Grace?

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Summary: Stunning Lack of Scholarship
Review: 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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Summary: Can't rate this highly enough
Review: Possibly the most important book I've ever read. Grace is the reason we live and can have any relationship with God and Yancey helps to make it make sense. I love this book.

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Being followers of Christ, we need a book like this to remind us of the "made-available-to-all" Salvation from our loving Lord. There are tons of books out there teaching about spiritual disciplines, which are important. But not too many books like this boldly admits the ungraceful deeds some Christians did in the name of holiness and just in the past and hamper people to come close to know Jesus who had no partiality at all. Yancey inspired us to show mercy and love to those unlovable people just like Jesus love us who are also unlovable. Very challenging, and very encouraging ,too.

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Summary: Great book
Review: An excellent introduction for the new Christian, or a refreshing exploration for those who have been 'in it' a while. Very popular from what I can tell.

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Summary: This is one of the best books of the century...
Review: No kidding. This is one of the best books I've read in my life. And I read a lot of books.

Some books change the way you think. This book changes *you* from the inside out.

I highly recommend the book. The audio cassettes are such an abridged version, they don't do the book justice. There is so much meat in the book, that I found myself reading it four (yes, four) times.

The audio cassettes are good but kind of a sampler of the book. Kind of like those samples of chocolates they hand out at the confectionary. Just enough to draw you in.

But I agree with another reviewer who said that Philip Yancy may well surpass C.S. Lewis as the most important Christian Writer of this century.

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Summary: Kiwis eat kangaroo?
Review: Mr Yancey writes a challenging book. However, I would like to question his research. He claims that 'New Zealanders eat kangaroo' (p. 149 footnote). Considering that there are no kangaroos in New Zealand, I was surprised to read that we are known for eating them.

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Summary: What's So Amazing About Grace?
Review: This book was easy to understand and very interesting. I just sat down one day and finished the whole book. Yancey does a great job of describing grace. I also found that he never judged any thing in the book, from not eating meat to homosexuality to being a mass murder. He just clearly explained some of his thoughts from reading the Bible and throws it out there for the reader to decide what they want to do with it. He never inflicts his opinions upon the reader, however he seems to have managed to cover a lot of aspects of grace. And he does it all with a easy to understand, almost conversational, but intellectual tone. I recommend it for anyone who wants to know what's so amazing about grace.

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Summary: Not his best work
Review: After reading Yancey's incredible "The Jesus I Never Knew", I could hardly wait to read "What's So Amazing About Grace?". Sadly, while the book has it moments, it carries nowhere near the power of his earlier work. When the book investigates the concepts of grace and forgiveness in the Bible, it is strong writing. When Mr. Yancey extensively writes of disappointment with the Church in the areas of politics, homosexuality and racism, he seems to exude some of the "ungrace" that he warns about. Many of the points are valid, but the focus on them seems to dominate too much of the book. I guess it is always hard to criticize with grace, which is why these issues are still so devisive. Unfortunately, I think they take away from what could have been another master work.

As it stands, this is still a good book, but if you are going to prioritize, "The Jesus I Never Knew" is a much better choice.

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Summary: Changing me even as I read
Review: I've always been a big proponent of grace. I always thought I was a big distributor of grace. But as I read this book, I've been realizing what a vast wonder grace really is and I am humbled and awed and infinitely more aware of the "ungrace" that I mete out every day. If you're tired of being angry at the world...if you're tired of jumping through hoops because you think God is going to like you better...read this book. And rest in God's grace. --Lisa Samson, author of The Church Ladies

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Summary: Right Wing Betrayal of Jesus
Review: 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!