Philip Yancey
Where the Light Fell
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For the first time, bestselling author Philip Yancey tells the story of his coming of age in the fundamentalist South--a family drama in the tradition of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy that explores the dark side of extremist Christian faith and chronicles the journey of one of the most influential religious writers of our time.Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found ways to venture out beyond the confines of their eight-foot-wide trailer. But when Yancey was in college, he uncovered a shocking secret about his father's death--a secret that beg…
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For the first time, bestselling author Philip Yancey tells the story of his coming of age in the fundamentalist South--a family drama in the tradition of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy that explores the dark side of extremist Christian faith and chronicles the journey of one of the most influential religious writers of our time.Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found ways to venture out beyond the confines of their eight-foot-wide trailer. But when Yancey was in college, he uncovered a shocking secret about his father's death--a secret that began to illuminate the motivations that drove his mother to extreme, often hostile religious convictions and a belief that her sons had been ordained for a divine cause.Searching for answers, Yancey dives into his family origins, taking us on an evocative journey from the backwoods of the Bible Belt to the bustling streets of Philadelphia; from trailer parks to church sanctuaries; from family oddballs to fire-and-brimstone preachers and childhood awakenings through nature, music, and literature. In time, the weight of religious and family pressure sent both sons on opposite journeys--one toward healing from the impact of what he calls a toxic faith; the other into a self-destructive spiral.Where the Light Fell is a gripping family narrative set against a turbulent time in post-World War II America, shaped by the collision of Southern fundamentalism and the mounting pressures of the civil rights movement and sixties-era forces of social change. In piecing together his fragmented personal history and his journey to redemption, Yancey gives testament to the enduring power of our search for truth and the possibility of faith rooted in grace instead of fear.I truly believe this is the one book I was put on earth to write, says Yancey. So many of the strands from my childhood--racial hostility, political division, culture wars--have resurfaced in modern form. Looking back points me forward.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-593-23851-6
- EAN: 9780593238516
- Produktnummer: 35608211
- Verlag: The Crown Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
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 Awards from Christian publishers and booksellers. He currently has more than sixteen million books in print, published in over fifty languages worldwide. Yancey worked as a journalist in Chicago for some twenty years, editing the youth magazine Campus Life while also writing for a wide variety of magazines including Reader's Digest, The Atlantic, National Wildlife, and Christianity Today. In 1992 he and his wife, Janet, moved to the foothills of Colorado where they live now.
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