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It's the most powerful force in the universe, our only hope for love and forgiveness, and a foretaste of eternal life: amazing, radical, life-changing grace.

Millions of lives have been changed by award-winning author Philip Yancey's startling exploration of grace at street level. Grace is the one thing the world can't duplicate, the healing force we need, and the key to transforming a broken world.

In this revised and updated edition of his personal and provocative book, Yancey offers true portraits of grace's life-changing power. These stories, set in the midst of life's stark realities, evoke such questions as:

  • If grace is God's love for the undeserving, how do I get it?
  • How well are we dispensing grace to a world that knows far more of strife and unforgiveness than it does of mercy?
  • Can grace make a difference in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust, and how can it withstand the brutality of hate?

With powerful stories, rich theology, and practical suggestions, Yancey challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately needs to know, What's So Amazing About Grace?

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What’s So Amazing About Grace? has been in print for over 25 years.

In that time I have received several thousand letters of response. Mostly, they tell stories. The man who shot John Lennon, now studying the Bible in a New York prison. An Emmy-winning actress working to heal wounds from childhood. The rock band U2, who studied the book together.

U2’s lead singer, Bono, had the most concise summary: “When you boil it down, the universe runs by either Karma or Grace. I’d be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I’m holding out for Grace.”

I have made changes throughout the original text, mainly by updating old examples and references. This edition also includes a reflection guide consisting of questions that make the application more personal. I hope that a new generation of readers discover for themselves what’s so amazing about grace. I am more convinced than ever that the United States and the world need a massive infusion of it. Like Bono, I’m holding out for grace.

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“Philip Yancey is a writer’s writer, and What’s So Amazing About Grace? is the crown jewel of all his books.”

—Brennan Manning, author of The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Philip Yancey’s writing continues to point to God’s unchanging truth: in a world gone crazy, what we all need most is grace.”

—Andy Stanley, founding pastor of North Point Ministries, TV host of Your Move

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Philip Yancey previously served as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written thirteen Gold Medallion Award-winning books and won two ECPA Book of the Year awards, for What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew. Four of his books have sold over one million copies. He lives with his wife in Colorado. Learn more at philipyancey.com.

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I started my career working as an Editor and then Publisher for Campus Life magazine. During those ten years I learned journalistic skills (there's no tougher audience than teenagers), but every year it seemed I wrote fewer and fewer words. In 1980 my wife and I moved to downtown Chicago where I began a career as a freelance writer. (She has worked as a social worker and hospice chaplain--which gives me plenty of material to write about!) We lived there until 1992, when we moved to the foothills of Colorado.

I've written over 30 books, most of them still in print, thankfully. Three of them I coauthored with Dr. Paul Brand, who influenced me more than any single person. A recent book, "Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God's Image" is a revised compilation of that content. My other favorites include "Soul Survivor" and "Reaching for the Invisible God" because both of them forced me to dig deep and get personal.

I had two new books released in 2021. “A Companion in Crisis” offers a paraphrase of John Donne’s ‘Devotions’ with commentary and application to our current suffering. My long-awaited memoir, “Where the Light Fell” gives readers a backstory of sorts, revealing the secrets of my turbulent childhood and teen years, and the impact on my written work.

I'm a pilgrim, still 'in recovery' from a bad church upbringing, searching for the possibility of a faith rooted in grace instead of fear. I feel overwhelming gratitude that I can make a living writing about the questions that interest me.

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Cameri
5.0 out of 5 stars Very thought provoking
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Great book...P. Yancey is able to see grace from a different perspective than what we are used to.
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BeeJay
5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Book!
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This is such a thorough and well written treatment of the subject of grace. It is a keeper and needs to be read again from time to time to remind us of the great gift we have been given and to inspire us to show grace to others, no matter their faults and weaknesses.
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John J Volk
4.0 out of 5 stars Emphesis on good works resulting from Mercy and Grace
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I read this book as part of a collection on Grace. The author mixes Mercy and Grace but brings out the fact that Jesus always treated the common people - sinners - as special. I think the emphesis of this book is on Good Works regardless of the political or social background. We receive Grace from the Lord at salvation (Vertical) and He expects us to show Grace and Mercy to all those around us (Horizontal), He contrasts Grace and ungrace clearly. The stories in this book are real. The acts of Grace and Mercy are real. This is chock full of great sermon illustrations. I gave it 4 stars because it was pointed out that Mr. Yancey is somehow affiliated with the Emerging or Emergent Church which is an evolutuon of the Social Gospel to which I do not subscribe (Experience over doctrine). Some stories are a bit dated to the Nixon, Clinton presidntial eras.
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Bob Knepper
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful read!
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This book was very timely for me! I needed a fuller picture of God’s grace right after I finished this book! Gods timing was once again spot on! A great read!
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Dana Cowen
5.0 out of 5 stars Grace oh sweet Grace
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2023
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As I sit here thru with this book, I quiver inside! When started it there was sadness and disheartening in my soul of all the ungrace, especially in members of Jesus followers! Then came the teaching me, I couldn’t get enough! At the end I felt I was front roll seating singing along with Norman! Peace fills me now, quivering with knowledge God loves me with grace upon grace!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Grace is one thing we Christians can offer the world, and in so doing fulfill the great commission!
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The world is so filled with judgment and un grace and the overwhelming feelings of unworthiness that we think this is the way it must be, that this is normal! From the worlds perspective this is normal. From Gods perspective it is not! He extends grace to an undeserving world, and we in turn can extend that same grace to those around us who don’t deserve it anymore than we did. This book will challenge you at your core, and if you let it, it will help you to approach everything you’ve learned from Gods Word from the understanding that He loves us enough to extend that grace to us, yes even to you and me. If we want to make disciples of all nations, we might begin by extending grace. Leave the judgement to Him! Thank you for such a thought provoking book!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent follow-up/foil to "Where the Light Fell"
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Loved this read. I read Yancey's memoir Where the Light Fell recently (a good read, but a hard first introduction to him and his writings! Heh!), and this was an excellent counterpoint/follow-up to that. He has a refreshing, easy-to-read writing style, and frankly, now that I've read it, I'd welcome reading more of his books, LOL.

It really expounded on grace in ways I needed to read. Grateful it was included as a bonus-read recommendation in _Core 52: A Fifteen-Minute Daily Guide to Build Your Bible IQ in a Year_--the instigator for reading it now.

I'd definitely re-read in future, as well. I'm sure I'd keep gleaning new gems!
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Felicia Demos
4.0 out of 5 stars very good
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If the whole world could act on grace, we would be living in a wonderful place indeed. I particularly liked the chapter on forgiveness, something I work on daily.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Cancelled but good read
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Komlanvi Gbenakou
5.0 out of 5 stars Glory to God
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Deep vew about grace. Consolidate my faith.
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Debbie
5.0 out of 5 stars Changed me
Reviewed in Canada on March 2, 2019
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My habit was to read this book on the train everyday on my way to work. It was a great way to start the day, with grace towards others knowing grace from God was with me. It changed me in ways I didn't expect.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Life Changing
Reviewed in Australia on September 21, 2018
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This is a Yancey classic that deserves to be read every few years. It's life changing. If only more people would read it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Einen künstlerischen Zugang finden
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Vorbemerkung: Diese Rezension ist Teil der Reihe 'gelesen & geschätzt' auf meinem Blog, bei der ich jede Woche in Buch rezensiere. Schaut mal vorbei.

Es gibt diese Geschichte, dass C.S. Lewis einmal auf einem Kongress von Theologen und Religionswissenschaftlern auftauchte (und ich weiß nicht, ob sie wirklich historisch ist), und dort gefragt wird, was das Christentum von den anderen Religionen unterscheide. „Das ist einfach‟, soll er bei der Gelegenheit geantwortet haben, „die Gnade.‟
Wenn das stimmt, und ich habe viel Sympathie für diese Position, aber ich bin auch kein vergleichender Religionswissenschaftler, dann ist es von besonderer Bedeutung, dass wir das Konzept Gnade richtig verstehen, wenn wir uns mit dem Herz unseres Glaubens auseinander setzen.
Dafür gibt es den Ansatz der „Lehren der Gnade‟, die in sich einige wunderbare und schöne Wahrheiten halten, und in die sich zu versenken oft eine wirkliche Freude ist (nicht umsonst ist mein Andachtsbuch am Abend momentan: Coffee with Calvin). Aber viel zu oft scheint es vielen Menschen so, als würde dabei aus einem Gedicht eine Gedichtinterpretation gemacht werden.
Für viele von uns verhält sich der Calvinismus zur Gnade wie das zweite Semester unseres Grundkurses Deutsch im Abitur zu Eichendorffs Wünscherute.
Es ist irgendwie so, als hätten sie es verstanden, aber doch nicht begriffen.
Als ich vor einigen Wochen wieder zu Yanceys wunderbarem Buch What's so amazing about Grace gegriffen habe, wurde mir schon wieder bei den ersten Seiten klar, das der Ansatz, den Yancey in diesem Buch fährt, ein völlig anderer ist.
Er begreift Gnade als etwas poetisches, etwas, dessen Schönheit nicht in Logik zu fassen ist, sondern nur in Prosa und Gedicht und Erleben.
Dabei versucht er, einen geradezu künstlerischen Zugang zu dem Thema Gnade zu schaffen, und hat dadurch mehr Gnade zu meinem Herzen gesprochen, als viele Systematische Theologien vorher.

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Man kann Yancey Schreibstil mögen oder nicht, aber mich fasziniert sein fast enzyklopädisches Wissen und seine Belesenheit in aller-Weltsliteratur. Fast wie ein Teppichknüpfer verbindet er in den Kapitels Zitate von Frederick Buechner, Dostojewsky, Paul Tillich und anderen bekannten Denkern und Philosophen, um seinen Punkt zu machen.
Dabei wirkt es aber nie so, als würde er nur abschreiben und zusammentragen, sondern seine Gedanken aus einer Vielzahl von Quellen beziehen. Sein Beitrag in diesem Buch ist also weniger, dass er neue Gedanken präsentiert, als dass er alte Gedanken zusammenträgt und oftmals auf ganz neue Art und Weise fruchtbar machen kann.
Ich denke, dass vor allem hierin die große Stärke des Buches liegt. Während andere Bücher versuchen, die Gnade neu zu präsentieren, lässt Yancey an vielen Punkten einfach die Menschen sprechen, die sie vor ihm durchdacht haben, oder viel mehr solche, die sie erlebt haben. Mich persönlich hat dabei das Kapitel über Leo Tolstoi und Fjodor Dostojewsky begeistert, in der er beschreibt, wie der eine zwar ein großer Moraliker war, einer der Moral und Gesetz verstanden hatte, aber der andere das Konzept Gnade in seinen Büchern groß gemacht hat.
Ich kenne viele Leute, denen Dostojevsky und Tolstoi zu schwer wiegen, und die sogar die Brüder Karamasov nach einigen Seiten weggelegt haben (unerklärlich!). Aber Yancey schafft es, die Faszination, die von diesen Autoren für viele von uns ausgehen, auch für die generelle Öffentlichkeit fruchtbar zu machen, und das Konzept Gnade dadurch deutlicher zu machen.
Nur erklärt er nicht was Gnade ist.
Yancey versucht nicht zu sezieren, welche Vorstellungen von Gnade wann vorherrschten und welche die logischen, oder die theologisch sauberen sind. Er zieht es vor, Gnade bei der Arbeit zuzusehen (um es mal so auszudrücken) und dabei den Mund nicht mehr zu schließen vor Staunen.

Staunen über die Gnade
Das Buch lädt vor allem dazu ein, über die Gnade zu staunen. Nicht wie ein Trainer, der uns dazu anhält, sondern wie ein Kind, das uns einlädt, mitzumachen.
Und gerade darin liegt die Essenz, die das Buch zu einem 'Pageturner' macht, ohne das Robert Langdon darin einer alten Geheimorganisation nachjagen muss. Es ist mehr der generelle Durst nach Gnade, den viele in der westlichen Welt verspüren, in einer Welt, die immer gnaden-loser wird. Während sich die Welt schneller dreht, die Märkte immer mehr wachsen (und immer hungriger werden), und man nicht mehr genau weiß, wie lange man das Tempo noch halten kann, lädt Yancey in seinem Buch dazu auf, einmal zu verschnaufen und darüber nachzudenken, was wirklich zählt, und was wirklich glücklich macht. Wie an der Stelle, als er den Zwischenschluss zieht:

„Grace is unfair, which is one of the hardest things about it. It is unreasonable to expect a woman to forgive the terrible things her father did to her just because he apologizes many years later, and totally unfair to ask that a mother overlook the many offenses her teenage son comitted. Grace, however, is not about fairness.‟ (S.80f)

Es hat mich dazu gebracht, scharf einzuatmen, weil mir augenblicklich bewusst wurde, dass ich unterschwellig zumindest Gott gegenüber genau das annehme. „Gott wird mir vergeben‟, hat Heinrich Heine einmal gesagt, „das ist ja sein Job.‟ Und ich merke schnell, dass ich am Sonntag über die verschwenderische Gnade Gottes reden kann, teuer genug, dass er seinen Sohn dafür am Kreuz sterben lässt um sie zu erkaufen, und am Montag nehme ich sie wieder für selbstverständlich. Yancey hat mich immer wieder daran erinnert, dass ich Gnade nicht für selbstverständlich halten soll, sondern für die stärkste Kraft, die dieses Universum am Laufen hält, und die einzige, die es zu verändern im Stande ist.

Aber was ist Gnade dann?
Bei alledem definiert er Gnade allerdings nie wirklich. Es fehlt ein Kapitel, in dem er in kurzen Worten schreibt, was er unter dem Wort Gnade eigentlich versteht. Dadurch kann es intellektuell manchmal schwierig werden, dem Autor zu folgen. Manchmal scheint er Gnade zum Beispiel als Synonym für 'Vergebung' zu verwenden – wobei ich sagen würde, dass Gnade die Grundlage, oder Quelle für Vergebung ist, und nicht dasselbe. An anderer Stelle scheint Gnade mehr so etwas wie bedingungslose Liebe zu sein („'To love a person', said Dostoevsky, 'means to see him as God intended him to be.'‟ [S.175]). Aber dann haben wir das gleiche Problem: Ich denke, dass bedingunglose Liebe mehr eine Art Quelle von Gnade ist, nicht dasselbe.
Als ich das Buch fertig gelesen hatte, erinnere ich mich, dass ich mich geborgen gefühlt habe, und gefüllt bis an den Rand mit Dankbarkeit für einen Gott, der verschwenderisch aus seiner Gnade austeilt und uns daran teilhaben lässt, und uns daraus schöpfen lässt, um sie weiterzugeben. Nur hatte ich nicht wirklich eine bessere Vorstellung davon, was Gnade dann eigentlich ist

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Ein Buch zu schreiben, das mehr die Poeten unter uns anspricht als die Philosophen, um das Konzept Gnade wieder an unser Herz zu lassen, ist sicher sehr hilfreich. Viele von uns können mit den kalten, systematischen Ansätzen zum Thema Gnade nicht viel Anfangen, weil wir den Eindruck haben, dass sie mehr für das Herz bestimmt ist und nicht für den Kopf.
Es liegt vielleicht daran, dass ich mich zu diesen Leuten zähle, dass mir das Buch so eine unheimliche Freude gemacht hat. Es liegt aber vielleicht auch daran, dass ich durch mein Studium mit einer soliden Basis ausgerüstet wurde, das Wort 'Gnade' auch mit einem Konzept und einem Innenleben auszustatten.
Deswegen sei jedem Leser, der „What's so amazing about Grace‟ genossen hat, auch Michael Hortons „Putting Amazing Back Into Grace‟ empfohlen. Mit beiden Büchern sind Herz und Kopf sicherlich gut ausgestattet, Gnade in eine taube Welt zu sprechen.

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