God is Relevant: Finding Strength and Peace in Today's World - Hardcover

Palau, Luis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385486782 ISBN 13: 9780385486781

Publisher: Doubleday, 1997

Synopsis

Not since Billy Graham has there been a minister with the stature and international reputation of Dr. Luis Palau. Over the past thirty years, he has gained an audience of tens of millions of people around the globe, and many regard him as the next major force in U.S. evangelism. God Is Relevant, Dr. Palau's first book for a trade audience, encapsulates his essential message to world, showing how God is not an outdated idea but a powerful force that can transform our troubled times and guide us into the coming millennium. Structured around three questions, "Is God relevant?," "How is God relevant?," and "Is God always relevant?," this work directly and sympathetically answers the doubts many have about the presence of God.

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About the Author:

Luis Palau was born in Argentina and became a US citizen after coming to America for graduate studies in theology. He is the founder of the Luis Palau Evangelist Association and the author of several books, including God Is Relevant and Where Is God When Bad Things Happen?. Palau lives in Portland, Oregon.

From Booklist:

Second only to Billy Graham as the most successful twentieth-century Christian evangelist, Palau still isn't a U.S. household name, probably because the Portland, Oregon, native has evangelized most extensively in Spanish. Here he restates all the old arguments upholding theism against atheism. What may surprise many in an evangelist's book is that its second section, on personally accepting Christ, is considerably shorter than the other two. (Another surprise may be Palau's openness to readers who may disagree with him--he wants demurrers to correspond with him and gives his real and electronic addresses.) The first section sketches major wisdom traditions from Confucianism to contemporary scientism, and the third profiles the West's major doubters, skeptics, and atheists, from Descartes to Freud. Comparisons with Christianity--not as organized religion (the church) but as personal faith commitment--and Christian thinkers are made and, of course, made to appear sounder by means of a quotation of authorities so extensive that the book proceeds like a papal encyclical, only in a more readable fashion. Ray Olson

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385486782
• ISBN 13: 9780385486781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240