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Disappointment with God (1988) : three questions no one asks aloud / Philip Yancey.

By: Publisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA : Zondervan Publishing House, [1988]Copyright date: ©1988Description: 260 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 031051780X (hardcover)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Book 1: GOD WITHIN THE SHADOWS: PART ONE - HEARING THE SILENCE: 1. A fatal error -- 2. Up in smoke -- 3. The questions no one asks aloud -- 4. What if -- 5. The source -- PART TWO - MAKING CONTACT: THE FATHER: 6. Risky business -- 7. The Parent -- 8. Unfiltered sunlight -- 9. One shining moment -- 10. Fire and the Word -- 11. Wounded lover -- 12. Too good to be true -- PART THREE - DRAWING CLOSER: THE SON: 13. The descent -- 14. Great expectations -- 15. Divine shyness -- 16. The postponed miracle -- 17. Progress -- PART FOUR - TURNING IT OVER: THE SPIRIT: 18. The transfer -- 19. Changes in the wind -- 20. The culmination -- BOOK II: SEEING IN THE DARK: 21. Interrupted -- 22. The only problem -- 23. A role in the cosmos -- 24. Is God unfair? -- 25. Why God doesn't explain -- 26. Is God silent? -- 27. Why God doesn't intervene -- 28. Is God hidden -- 29. Why Job died happy -- 30. Two wagers, two parables.
Summary: "I wanted a God who would roll up his sleeves and step into my life with power." Is God unfair? Is God silent? Is God hidden? These three questions - that Christians often wonder about, but seldom ask aloud - are asked with piercing honesty in Philip Yancey's most profoundly personal book yet. These questions, spoken by people suffering and in pain, are answered with clarity, richness, and Biblcial certainty. --Back cover.
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Holland Park 231 God (Theology) Holland Park Church Library Room 2 231.7 yan dis 1988 c1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1302

Bibliography pages 259-260

Book 1: GOD WITHIN THE SHADOWS: PART ONE - HEARING THE SILENCE: 1. A fatal error -- 2. Up in smoke -- 3. The questions no one asks aloud -- 4. What if -- 5. The source -- PART TWO - MAKING CONTACT: THE FATHER: 6. Risky business -- 7. The Parent -- 8. Unfiltered sunlight -- 9. One shining moment -- 10. Fire and the Word -- 11. Wounded lover -- 12. Too good to be true -- PART THREE - DRAWING CLOSER: THE SON: 13. The descent -- 14. Great expectations -- 15. Divine shyness -- 16. The postponed miracle -- 17. Progress -- PART FOUR - TURNING IT OVER: THE SPIRIT: 18. The transfer -- 19. Changes in the wind -- 20. The culmination -- BOOK II: SEEING IN THE DARK: 21. Interrupted -- 22. The only problem -- 23. A role in the cosmos -- 24. Is God unfair? -- 25. Why God doesn't explain -- 26. Is God silent? -- 27. Why God doesn't intervene -- 28. Is God hidden -- 29. Why Job died happy -- 30. Two wagers, two parables.

"I wanted a God who would roll up his sleeves and step into my life with power." Is God unfair? Is God silent? Is God hidden? These three questions - that Christians often wonder about, but seldom ask aloud - are asked with piercing honesty in Philip Yancey's most profoundly personal book yet. These questions, spoken by people suffering and in pain, are answered with clarity, richness, and Biblcial certainty. --Back cover.

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