Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 279
Publisher: Eerdmans
ISBN#: 9780802828972
Availability: Usually Ships the Same Business Day
Description:
Grace in Practice is a challenging call to live
life under grace — a concept most Christians secretly have trouble with. Paul
Zahl pulls no punches, contending that no matter how often we talk about
salvation by grace, in our “can-do” society we often cling instead to a
righteousness of works. Asserting throughout that grace always trumps both law
and church, Zahl illuminates an expansive view of grace in everything, extending
the good news of grace to all creation. Conversationally written and filled with
fascinating insights,
Grace in Practice will reward any Christian who
seeks to understand the full measure of God’s grace and the total freedom it
offers.
J.
Ligon Duncan III
— President, Alliance of Confessing
Evangelicals
“Paul Zahl is a formidable scholar, an admired colleague, and a
courageous churchman, but I especially love Paul Zahl the preacher — his passion
and humor, his power of description and illustration, and, above all, his zeal
for grace. When he speaks about law and grace, I’m totally caught up in it —
even when he’s beating up on my views! That same enthusiasm comes through in
this book. Cascading pop-culture references are flanked with the profoundest of
insights. A barrage of illustrations brings home Zahl’s message. Martin Luther
has his spokesman. In Grace in Practice, Zahl sets out a theology of the
reality, experience, and expression of grace in the Christian life — and then
doesn’t mind upsetting your applecart as he applies it specifically to just
about everything.”
Peter
J. Gomes
— Harvard University
“Paul Zahl is at it again — and, as
usual, for the good of us all. He has been ‘long on grace and short on law’ for
all of his ministry, and who in these difficult times could want more law
and less grace? This is a book for everyday believers — an act of grace.”
Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz
— author of
America's Battle for
God
“Zahl’s Grace in Practice cuts right across the patterns of
thinking and acting to which Christians have become accustomed. An engaging and
passionate book, intensely personal, witty and direct — and provocative to the
core.”
