What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
Week 8: Chapter 7 — An Unnatural Act
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Yancey presses deeper into the difficult terrain of forgiveness and how it functions — or fails to function — in some of history's darkest moments.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Yancey examines forgiveness against the backdrop of massive historical evil — the Holocaust, apartheid, racial violence. Can grace survive atrocities of this scale? Does extending forgiveness to perpetrators of genocide dishonor victims, or does it liberate them?
2.He looks at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa as an imperfect but remarkable real-world attempt to institutionalize grace and forgiveness after apartheid. What made that process genuinely grace-like? What were its limitations?
3.Yancey tells the story of Corrie ten Boom meeting one of her former Nazi guards after the war and being called to shake his hand and forgive him — a moment she described as requiring a supernatural act of will. What does her story reveal about the relationship between feeling forgiveness and choosing it?
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