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Title: Soul Survivor : How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church by PHILIP YANCEY ISBN: 0-385-50275-3 Publisher: Galilee Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.49 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Starting Point For Further Study
Comment: Mr. Yancy, an excellent wordsmith and essayist, writes chapters about 13 people (Martin Luther King, G.K. Chesterton, Paul Brand, Robert Coles, Leo Tolstoy & Feodor Dostoevsky, Gandhi (a non-Christian), Everett Koop, John Donne, Annie Dillard, Frederick Buechner, Shusaku Endo and Henri Nouwen).
Each of these people, none of whom are "professional Christians", exemplifies by their lives and achievements an application of Christian faith and principles that allowed them to make a difference in the world. All of them did so as individuals working outside the organized structure of the church. Their lives and comments provide inspiration to any Christian who would go beyond the faith as only a road to their personal salvation in the next world and toward applying their faith to creating a better life for people in this world.
Soul Survivor is good starting point for further study because Yancy concludes each chapter with specific recommendations for further reading in the lives and writings of each subject.
I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Renewed Hope!
Comment: Yancey, once again does tremendous work in this book. He is open about his own failings resulting from growing up in a racist southern church. He sites the influence of the church on his early views of Christianity and how much he has grown over the years. He continually brings the Christian life into perspective as he goes through other lives of people who have had an impact on his own journey as a Christian.
I would highly recommend this book to folks who 1) want a great book to read 2) need to hear an open and honest perspective on the church in the life of a Christian and 3) for those who need to see that "going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to Mac Donald's makes you a hamburger," as Keith Green used to say.
Yancey does an excellent job of bringing the lives of Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Paul Brand, Dr. Robert Coles, Gandhi, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky into focus such that one can get a good view of what it means to be a Christian or live a Christian life based on the principles Jesus espoused while here on earth. It's an excellent book for a discussion class and has lots of tough questions along with examples of lives that went beyond the Pollyanna or cliché phrases you hear from many so called Christians. Read it, absorb it, and let its affect cover your whole being. I think you'll grow from it, I know I did.
Rating: 5
Summary: Yancey - Never disappoints
Comment: I just finished reading "What's so Amazing About Grace" and this book is a great follow up. I grew up in Alabama going to churches similar to those described by Yancey and I am still trying to recover. The 13 biographical sketches in this book present inspiring details about the subjects but also allow the reader to see their human flaws as well. Read this book and learn about history, faith, and struggles of extraordinary people trying to live up to God's purpose for their lives.
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Title: Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing? by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0310252172 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0310245656 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Jesus I Never Knew, The by Philip Yancey ISBN: 031021923X Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0310247306 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey ISBN: 031021436X Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 28 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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