The famed hymn writer Isaac Watts once wrote,
“Our life contains a thousand springs
and dies if one be gone.
Strange! That a harp of thousand strings should keep in tune so long.”
Strange! That a harp of thousand strings should keep in tune so long.”
In Fearfully and
Wonderfully, Paul Brand and Philip Yancey give us a glimpse of the sheer
magnificence and beauty of the human body. In this new and updated edition,
there are six sections that comprise of twenty-three chapters. The six sections
are as follows: Image Bearers, One and many, Outside and inside, Proof of life,
the language of pain, and the Body’s CEO. With the painstaking brilliance of a
world renowned surgeon, Dr Paul Brand and the eloquent craftsmanship of Philip
Yancey the reader gets a glimpse into the fascinating suppleness of the skin,
the skeletal system, the dynamism and elasticity of muscles and the totality of
the human body that synergistically works according the Designer’s intent even
though we live in a fallen creation and experience the ravages of sin and
sickness. Yet in all the intricacies, the human body points to the sheer eloquence,
majesty, and artistry of a Creator who made us in His image.
