The Shattering Sound of Amazing Grace: Disquieting Tales from Saint John's Gospel

David J. Schlafer, acclaimed preacher, teacher, and writer, weaves words and ideas like a Celtic braid. He places us in the company of some of the people who appear in the Gospel of John-Nicodemus, the woman at the well, the woman taken in adultery, Martha and Mary, the man born blind, the bride and groom at Cana-and examines them in two unusual sources of light:
·The classic line from C. S. Lewis: “Every idea we form of God, God must, in mercy, shatter.”
·John Newton's hymn “Amazing Grac...