"De suas muitas viagens pelo mundo como palestrante, Yancey tem colecionado recordações nem sempre agradáveis. Para que serve Deus apresenta os bastidores de dez situações especialmente tensas em que Yancey esteve presente, convidado a falar sobre a graça de Deus.
Sempre atento às questões mais polêmicas da fé cristã, Yancey aventura-se na investigação do sentido prático da fé para aqueles que vivem momentos dramáticos e aparentemente sem esperança, como ele mesmo, à beira da morte numa estrada isolada, após sofrer grave acidente automobilístico.
Este diário de bordo é o convite de Philip Yancey para responder à principal pergunta do livro, mas também para que você descubra como a mensagem da graça adquire contornos surpreendentes quando colocada à prova."
Philip Yancey is an American Christian author. Fourteen million of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, What's So Amazing About Grace in 1998. He is published by Zondervan Publishing.
Yancey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. When Yancey was one year old, his father, stricken with polio, died after his church elders suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him. This was one of the reasons he had lost his faith at one point of time. Yancey earned his MA with highest honors from the graduate school of Wheaton College. His two graduate degrees in Communications and English were earned from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago.
Yancey moved to Chicago, Illinois, and in 1971 joined the staff of Campus Life magazine--a sister publication of Christianity Today directed towards high school and college students--where he served as editor for eight years. Yancey was for many years an editor for Christianity Today and wrote articles for Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Eternity, Moody Monthly, and National Wildlife, among others. He now lives in Colorado, working as a columnist and editor-at-large for Christianity Today. He is a member of the editorial board of Books and Culture, another magazine affiliated with Christianity Today, and travels around the world for speaking engagements.
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