"Ich bin mir bewusst, dass kein Buch das Problem des Leids 'lösen' kann. Doch wenn Christen eine gute Nachricht zu verbreiten haben, eine Botschaft der Hoffnung oder des Trostes für eine verletzte Welt, dann muss sie hier ansetzen."
Bestsellerautor Philip Yancey lässt das Thema Leid nicht los, und so wagt er es anhand vieler Geschichten, sich der große Frage nach dem "Warum?" zu stellen. Dabei warten seine differenzierten Einsichten und Beobachtungen weder mit billigen Antworten auf noch reden sie irgendetwas schön, um keine Zweifel an Gott aufkommen zu lassen. Und doch machen sie tatsächlich die größte Stärke des christlichen Glaubens plausibel: die Hoffnung auf Erlösung - weil dem Gott, der selbst gelitten hat, unser Leid nicht egal ist.
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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