Philip Yancey believes we are missing the supernatural hidden in everyday life. In this 2004 Christianity Today Book Award of Merit winner, he investigates the natural world and discovers the supernatural hiding in plain view. Nature and super nature are not two separate worlds but different expressions of the same reality. Join Yancey as he grapples with why God made the world, what your role truly is, and how can you live in the natural world while expressing the values of the supernatural. You'll be challenged to tune into "rumors of another world" and connect the seen with the unseen. The grace-filled result will be a life of beauty, purpose, freedom, and faith.
What on earth are we missing? Philip Yancey believes we are missing the supernatural hidden in everyday life. In Rumors of Another World, Yancey investigates the natural world and discovers the supernatural hiding in plain view. He grapples with why God made the world and what our role truly is, and seeks to answer the question, “How do I live in the natural world while expressing the values of the supernatural?” Philip writes, “I have come to understand faith as the highest form of integrated encounter. Faith puts together, assembles, re-orders, accepting the entire world as God’s handiwork. We live among clues, like rescuers sifting through pieces of stained glass shattered by a bomb, and only with a blueprint or some memory of original design can we begin to connect the shards, to assemble them into a pattern that makes sense of our world. “Nature and supernature are not two separate worlds, but different expressions of the same reality. To encounter the world as a whole, we need a more supernatural awareness of the natural world.” Yancey invites readers to join him on a journey of discovery. He challenges us to tune into “rumors of another world,” and connect the seen with the unseen. He promises that the grace-filled result will be a life of beauty, purpose, freedom, and faith.
Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written thirteen Gold Medallion Award-winning books and won two ECPA Book of the Year awards for What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew. Four of his books have sold over one million copies. Yancey lives with his wife in Colorado. SPANISH BIO: Philip Yancey es periodista, autor de varios exitos de libreria y conferencista. Sus mas de veinte libros son conocidos por su honestidad, profundas busquedas en torno a la fe cristiana, especialmente en lo que concierne a interrogantes y dilemas personales. Millones de avidos lectores lo consideran como un companero confiable en la busqueda de una fe que importe. Philip y su esposa Janet viven en Colorado.
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.-John Moryl, Yeshiva Univ., New York Copyright 2003 Reed Business
Information.
In a work that is startling and original, Yancey (What's So Amazing About
Grace?; The Jesus I Never Knew) writes for people on the "borderlands" of
Christian faith: those who may have been scarred by bad church experiences, or
those who simply have more doubts and questions than they have faith. Most
people, he says, perceive "rumors of another world" while inhabiting this one;
they long for something more, and yearn for belief in God's transcendence. We
substitute other things for God in order to fill this void. (In a chapter that
by itself is worth the price of admission, Yancey claims that our culture's
fascination with sex stems from the fact that sex is one of the only
transcendent, mysterious experiences remaining in the contemporary West.) The
quality of Yancey's writing-and his thinking-are simply superb. He is fond of
modern literary giants like Simone Weil, Virginia Woolf and Evelyn Waugh and
is apt to defer to the insights of 20th-century poets such as T.S. Eliot and
W.H. Auden. He also draws from his understanding of God-in-nature (shades of
Annie Dillard here) and from his travels all over the world, using Tasmanian
sheep to illustrate a point about human freedom and Costa Rican leatherback
turtles to demonstrate "the mixed messages in nature." One particularly
powerful chapter discusses the thorny-and unpopular-topics of guilt and
repentance. Yancey, one of the Christian market's best writers, shows a
marvelous ability to speak to the world outside that market. (Sept. 2)
Forecast: To promote this book, Yancey will do a 12-city national tour, the
first-ever book tour for this author, who in the last 25 years has sold more
than seven million books. He will also be the featured speaker for a live
broadcast on September 14 on the Church Communication Network, with 1,500
subscribing churches. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
