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| PRODUCT TITLE | WHEN LIFE HURTS / CHINESE / TRADITIONAL / HARDCOVER PADDED |
| ISBN NUMBER | 9789575876739 |
| CATEGORY TYPE | CHINESE BOOKS |
| AUTHOR/EDITOR | PHILIP YANCEY |
| PUBLISHER | EDEN |
| PRODUCT Type. | Books |
| Summary | NA |
| FORMAT | NA |
| SELLING PRICE | $8.00* |
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DESCRIPTION
Growing up in a strict, fundamentalist church in the southern USA, a young Philip Yancey tended to view God as 'a scowling Supercop, searching for anyone who might be having a good time in order to squash them.' Yancey jokes today about being 'in recovery' from a toxic church. 'Of course, there were good qualities too. If a neighbour's house burned down, the congregation would rally around and show charity if, that is, the house belonged to a white person. I grew up confused by the contradictions. We heard about love and grace, but I didn't experience much. And we were taught that God answers prayers, miraculously, but my father died of polio just after my first birthday, despite many prayers for his healing.'
For Yancey, reading offered a window to a different world. So, he devoured books that opened his mind, challenged his upbringing, and went against what he had been taught. A sense of betrayal engulfed him. 'I felt I had been lied to. For instance, what I learned from a book like To Kill a Mockingbird or Black Like Me contradicted the racism I encountered in church. I went through a period of reacting against everything I was taught and even discarding my faith. I began my journey back mainly by encountering a world very different than I had been taught, an expansive world of beauty and goodness. Along the way I realized that God had been misrepresented to me. Cautiously, warily, I returned, circling around the faith to see if it might be true.'
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