What’s So Amazing About Grace? Revised and Updated

Philip Yancey’s book “What’s So Amazing About Grace?” has been in print for over 25 years, during which time he has received several thousand letters of response. These letters often tell remarkable stories, such as that of the man who shot John Lennon, now studying the Bible in a New York prison, an Emmy-winning actress working to heal childhood wounds, and the rock band U2, who studied the book together.

U2’s lead singer, Bono, offered the most concise summary: “When you boil it down, the universe runs by either Karma or Grace. I’d be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I’m holding out for Grace.”

Yancey has made changes throughout the original text, primarily by updating old examples and references. This edition also includes a reflection guide consisting of questions that make the application more personal. He hopes that a new generation of readers will discover for themselves what’s so amazing about grace. Yancey is more convinced than ever that the United States and the world need a massive infusion of it. Like Bono, he is holding out for grace.

In this revised and updated edition of his personal and provocative book, Yancey offers true portraits of grace’s life-changing power. These stories, set in the midst of life’s stark realities, evoke such questions as:

• If grace is God’s love for the undeserving, how do I get it?
• How well are we dispensing grace to a world that knows far more of strife and unforgiveness than it does of mercy?
• Can grace make a difference in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust, and how can it withstand the brutality of hate?

With powerful stories, rich theology, and practical suggestions, Yancey challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately needs to know, What’s So Amazing About Grace?

Philip Yancey is the author of twenty-five books, including The Jesus I Never Knew, What’s So Amazing About Grace?, and Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church. Yancey’s books have garnered thirteen Gold Medallion Book Awards from Christian publishers and booksellers. He currently has more than seventeen million books in print and has been published in over fifty languages worldwide.

Yancey worked as a journalist and freelance author in Chicago for some twenty years, editing the youth magazine Campus Life while also contributing to a wide variety of publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Christianity Today. He and his wife, Janet, live in the foothills of Colorado.