What good is God? : in search of a faith that matters / Phillip Yancey. [print]

By:

Yancey, Philip [Author]

Contributor(s):

Xu, Chengde

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Chinese Original language: English Series: Gu shi guan gracePublication details: Taiwan Xinbei Shi : Xiao yuan shu fang chu ban she, (c)2013.Edition: Chu banDescription: ix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789861983042
986198304X

Other title:

Zai po sui shi jie zhong xun suo shang di

Uniform titles:

What good is God? Chinese

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

BR123.X8.W438 2013
BR123

Available additional physical forms:

Contents:

Virginia Tech : campus massacre. The cruelest month -- What is God when it hurts? -- China : winds of change. Underground rumblings -- From the bottom up -- Green Lake : professional sex workers. At the low, you cry for help -- Grace, like water, flows downward -- Cambridge : remembering C.S. Lewis. Apostle to the skeptics -- Straddling two worlds -- Bible college : student daze. Life in a bubble -- I wish I'd known -- South Africa : breaking down the walls. The unlikeliest lot -- Growing in grace -- Memphis : an alternative vision. Out of ashes -- Upon this rock -- Middle East : church at risk. Sand dunes and skyscrapers -- Stream in the desert -- Chicago : a place for misfits. The comedy and the tragedy -- Why I wish I was an alcoholic -- Mumbai : a marathon of horror. Tour, interrupted -- Grace under fire -- What good is God?

Subject: The author, a journalist and spiritual seeker has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in this book concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the world: Mumbai, India when the firing started during the terrorist attacks; at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; on the Virginia Tech campus soon after the massacre; an AA convention; and even to a conference for women in prostitution.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CHINESE COLLECTION	Non-fiction	BR123.Y2612 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001764675

Translation of: What good is God? : in search of a faith that matters

English contents : The story behind the search -- Virginia Tech : campus massacre. The cruelest month -- What is God when it hurts? -- China : winds of change. Underground rumblings -- From the bottom up -- Green Lake : professional sex workers. At the low, you cry for help -- Grace, like water, flows downward -- Cambridge : remembering C.S. Lewis. Apostle to the skeptics -- Straddling two worlds -- Bible college : student daze. Life in a bubble -- I wish I'd known -- South Africa : breaking down the walls. The unlikeliest lot -- Growing in grace -- Memphis : an alternative vision. Out of ashes -- Upon this rock -- Middle East : church at risk. Sand dunes and skyscrapers -- Stream in the desert -- Chicago : a place for misfits. The comedy and the tragedy -- Why I wish I was an alcoholic -- Mumbai : a marathon of horror. Tour, interrupted -- Grace under fire -- What good is God?

The author, a journalist and spiritual seeker has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in this book concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the world: Mumbai, India when the firing started during the terrorist attacks; at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; on the Virginia Tech campus soon after the massacre; an AA convention; and even to a conference for women in prostitution.

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