{"id":285,"date":"2008-12-07T00:05:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T04:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/07\/review-of-free-of-charge-by-miroslav-volf\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T23:23:46","slug":"review-of-free-of-charge-by-miroslav-volf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Review of Free of Charge, by Miroslav Volf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image357\" height=\"240\" alt=\"free_of_charge.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/free_of_charge.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Free of Charge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Miroslav Volf<\/p>\n<p>Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2005.\u00a0 247 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zondervan.com\/\">http:\/\/www.zondervan.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading lots of books lately about forgiveness, because it&#8217;s an inexhaustible topic, and I find I desperately need it in my life these days.\u00a0 I do believe that forgiveness is absolutely essential to happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Miroslav Volf&#8217;s book, <em>Free of Charge, <\/em>is more of an academic look at forgiveness and at giving.\u00a0 He approaches giving and forgiving as our response to a giving and forgiving God, our obligation as God-followers.\u00a0 Though his approach is a little more academic, it is nonetheless powerful, and perhaps that much more persuasive.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s forgiveness is so amazing and unlimited, how can we do less and claim to be His children?<\/p>\n<p>I found some wonderful quotations along the way, posted on Sonderquotes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?s=volf\">http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?s=volf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod works against evil and suffering.\u00a0 But God, in immense divine power and inscrutable divine wisdom, also works <em>through <\/em>evil and suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0310265746\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/free_of_charge.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/free_of_charge.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free of Charge Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav Volf Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2005.\u00a0 247 pages. http:\/\/www.zondervan.com\/ I&#8217;ve been reading lots of books lately about forgiveness, because it&#8217;s an inexhaustible topic, and I find I desperately need it in my life these days.\u00a0 I do believe that forgiveness is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian","category-nonfiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}