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Title: Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing? by Philip Yancey, Richard Doyle ISBN: 0-310-25313-6 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (50 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Penetrating the "incognito"
Comment: The always-loved C.S. Lewis once wrote:
"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always easy to penetrate. The real labor is to remember to attend. In fact to come awake. Still more to remain awake".
This book will help you to understand those "signs" of the incognito that we struggle to interpret. Philip Yancey extends an invitation to penetrate some of the riddles or "rumors" of the supernatural world and their meaning for our life. He tosses a call to remain awake and access the presence of God on this earth.
"Rumors" is Yancey at his best style. His thinking is lucid and profound, and his analyses are thought provoking and rich in meanings. As usual, he is fond of a big range of authors and thinkers that helps him to explain insightful ideas and offer examples in accessible terms. He is honest, direct and practical. He has really something to say to understand the interaction between the physical and the spiritual (metaphysical) worlds as proposed by Christianity, especially to the people who, like him, are not afraid of doubts.
The author offers three main discussions in this book:
1) The world we inhabit and what we're missing. What rumors of another world it might covey? He discusses the "sacramental" view of life (where natural and supernatural coexist in one world) on subjects as nature, every day life, and sex (a must read chapter).
2) The apparent contradictions: why doesn't this world look like God's world? Bright analyses of sin (as a backhand proof of God's existence) and of guilt (as a gift from God).
3) The interaction of both natural and supernatural worlds: the meaning for our lives, how to practice that existence of God in a modern world (money, death, moral failures, among others).
If you're already familiar with Yancey's work, this book won't let you down -he keeps raising the bar. If you want to read him for the first time, this is a good place to start. In any case, know that you will soon find yourself captivated by one of today's most suggestive and thought stimulating Christian writers.
Rating: 4
Summary: An intelligently written, stimulating defense of the gospel
Comment: Are you one of the many people searching for more signs of heaven here on earth? In Rumors of Another World, Philip Yancey, the prolific writer of Christian non-fiction, aims to help readers grasp the reality of the heavenly kingdom ruled by God.
Yancey offers a contemplative, intelligently written commentary of the tensions between the spiritual and the physical, heaven and earth, good and evil, the seen and the unseen, and faith and unbelief. The book flows steadily as Yancey cogently addresses topics that fall into three main categories: 1) What are We Missing? 2) Signs of Disorder, and 3) Two Worlds.
According to Yancey's note, he writes this book for people who live in the borderlands between belief and doubt. In the book, Yancey thinks aloud to answer questions such as "Is the visible world around us all there is?"
Yancey describes himself as being, at times, a "reluctant Christian, buffeted by doubts and 'in recovery' from bad church encounters." For himself and the readers, he explains why he believes in Jesus and the invisible spiritual realm.
I have not read a contemporary Christian writer that incorporates such a plethora of references as Yancey does in this book. Highlights include quotes by C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Milton, T.S. Eliot, Einstein, William James, Blaise Pascal, and many more poets, philosophers, authors and saints.
Perhaps the most effective reference covers several pages devoted to the story of John Merrick, the Elephant Man. Yancey discusses Ashley Montagu's poignant book, The Elephant Man, illustrating how Merrick remained a gentle, compassionate human despite the brutal treatment he received at the hands of most of the people he encountered during his brief life. Yancey uses the story to show how heaven reveals itself in the most unusual places, where we least expect to witness the divine. Yancey emphasizes other points by interspersing similar analogies throughout the book.
Yancey draws on his experiences in nature from around the globe, his interactions with people in the United States and other countries, and his positive and negative interactions in churches. These stories combined with the many references serve to elucidate Christian perspectives on day-to-day activities and on spiritual conundrums. One of the most intriguing chapters compares the world's versus the Christian's attitude toward sex, and another looks at the conflicting ideas of the "good life."
Although the book fails to deliver a crescendo, it coherently provides logical reasons to believe in the substance of the Christian worldview and, most importantly, in the presence of a loving and caring God.
I think Yancey's writing is a gift to modern readers so that we might see past the titillating distractions of our world to the eternal spiritual realm. Yancey draws from many impressive thinkers to articulate a persuasive defense of the gospel. This book is ideal for the skeptic and the fundamentalist, as it serves to strengthen a reader's faith and to soften his or her heart.
Rating: 5
Summary: Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?
Comment: The spiritual world is not obvious, and God does not force anyone to believe in God. There are, however, clues, or "rumors," as author and editor Yancey calls them, to the spiritual all around us. We simply need to be attentive to them. Yancey (What's So Amazing About Grace?; Where Is God When It Hurts?) aims to help readers, especially those who are not religious but suspect that the spiritual exists, to tune into the rumors. Some are familiar, such as the complexity of living beings or the beauty of nature. Others are not so quickly associated with the spiritual, such as sexual pleasure. Yancey makes it clear, especially to those on the "borderlands" of faith, that these and many other rumors are all indications of the spiritual world. His skill as an award-winning author is evident throughout this engaging volume. Highly recommended, especially for collections of Christian inspirational reading
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