So I have just finished reading a book that has taken months to finish. It has not taken months because it is boring. It took a long time because it is a difficult book to read and is abundant in difficult conceptual ideas that take time and effort to process. Most of Yancey’s works are intellectual, but I found this one to be his most challenging read thus far.
‘Disappointment with God’ attempts to answer the following three questions:
1. Is God fair?
2. Is God silent?
3. Is God hidden?
To this end, the book is a must-read. I have never had these questions so well answered, and his wise and calculated answers I will carry with me through life. Yancey does something very interesting and for a large part of the book, turns the tables and writes on what it might be like to be God, and even on God’s disappointment with man. This revealed to me God through history and certainly gave me a greater (even poetic) understanding of God, my father, the lover of my soul. Along the way, my desire to read the Old Testament prophets peaked and I started to appreciate new things in books like Isaiah and Lamentations. At one point in time, the book even became very intellectual in a scientific way and discussed the linearity of time and time and it’s relativity and what that means to us and to God.
In true Yancey fashion he explores all angles of an argument (even ‘disappointment without God’) often throwing himself in the deep water of the argument and writing his way back out onto solid ground.
Yancey, my hero.
‘Disappointment with God’ attempts to answer the following three questions:
1. Is God fair?
2. Is God silent?
3. Is God hidden?
To this end, the book is a must-read. I have never had these questions so well answered, and his wise and calculated answers I will carry with me through life. Yancey does something very interesting and for a large part of the book, turns the tables and writes on what it might be like to be God, and even on God’s disappointment with man. This revealed to me God through history and certainly gave me a greater (even poetic) understanding of God, my father, the lover of my soul. Along the way, my desire to read the Old Testament prophets peaked and I started to appreciate new things in books like Isaiah and Lamentations. At one point in time, the book even became very intellectual in a scientific way and discussed the linearity of time and time and it’s relativity and what that means to us and to God.
In true Yancey fashion he explores all angles of an argument (even ‘disappointment without God’) often throwing himself in the deep water of the argument and writing his way back out onto solid ground.
Yancey, my hero.
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