Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey è un noto autore americano di libri di carattere spirituale. Nato e cresciuto ad Atlanta, in Georgia, ha successivamente conseguito lauree presso la Wheaton College Graduate School e l'Università di Chicago in Comunicazioni ed Inglese. La carriera di scrittore di Yancey ha avuto inizio in modo significativo nel 1978, dopo aver lavorato come editore e direttore editoriale per la Campus Life Magazine. Le sue opere sono apparse in numerose pubblicazioni, tra cui Reader’s Digest, Publisher’s Weekly, National Wildlife, Christian Century, e The Reformed Journal. Ha inoltre contribuito a Christianity Today magazine, dove ha svolto il ruolo di Editor at Large.

I libri di Yancey hanno avuto un impatto significativo sui lettori di tutto il mondo, con oltre 15 milioni di copie vendute e traduzioni in più di 30 lingue. Il suo lavoro ha vinto numerosi premi, tra cui 13 Gold Medallion Awards dall'Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Due dei suoi libri più popolari, "What's So Amazing About Grace" e "The Jesus I Never Knew," hanno vinto il premio ECPA Christian Book of the Year Award. Alcune delle sue opere notevoli includono "Where Is God When It Hurts," "The Student Bible," e "Disappointment with God."

Nel 2021, Yancey ha pubblicato due nuovi libri: "A Companion in Crisis" e la sua attesissima autobiografia, "Where the Light Fell." La sua scrittura copre un'ampia gamma di argomenti, ma spesso esplora questioni di fede e spiritualità. Nonostante la sua educazione religiosa stretta, Yancey si descrive come un "pellegrino, ancora in fase di recupero da un'educazione religiosa problematica, alla ricerca della possibilità di una fede radicata nella grazia invece che nella paura."

Oltre alla sua scrittura, Yancey è stato riconosciuto per i suoi contributi al mondo della letteratura cristiana. Nel 1996, i gestori dei negozi di libri cristiani hanno selezionato "The Jesus I Never Knew" come Libro dell'Anno, e nel 1998, "What’s So Amazing About Grace?" ha vinto lo stesso premio. La scrittura di Yancey ha toccato lettori da tutte le passeggiate della vita, e i suoi libri continuano a ispirare e sfidare i lettori ad esplorare la propria fede e spiritualità.
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 After the Wedding 1976
2 Unhappy Secrets of the Christian Life 1979
3 Unhappy Secrets of the Christian Life (With: Tim Stafford) 1979
4 Where is God When it Hurts Study Guide 1979
5 Fearfully and Wonderfully 1980
6 Fearfully and Wonderfully (With: Paul W. Brand) 1980
7 Growing Pains in the Christian Life 1980
8 Growing Pains in the Christian Life (With: Tim Stafford) 1980
9 Insight 1982
10 The Dilemma of Pain 1982
11 Open Windows 1982
12 The Student Bible: New International Version 1982
13 Guidance 1984
14 Helping the Hurting 1984
15 In His Image (With: Paul W. Brand) 1984
16 In His Image 1984
17 Healing 1984
18 Healing (With: Paul W. Brand) 1984
19 Questions? Answers! 1986
20 Questions? Answers! (With: Tim Stafford, Verne Becker) 1986
21 True Confessions 1987
22 How Can I Help When Someone is Hurting? 1987
23 The Students' Guide to the New International Version 1988
24 Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud 1988
25 A Guided Tour of the Bible 1989
26 I Was Just Wondering 1989
27 Seeing in the Dark 1989
28 People & Priorities: Mountain Climbing by the Book (With: David L. McKenna) 1991
29 What They Never Told Me When I Became a Christian (With: Tim Stafford, Vern Becker) 1991
30 What They Never Told Me When I Became a Christian 1991
31 Praying with the KGB 1992
32 Heroes 1992
33 Exploring Faith and Discipleship 1992
34 Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants (With: Paul W. Brand) 1993
35 Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants 1993
36 Discovering God 1993
37 The Forever Feast (With: Paul W. Brand) 1993
38 The Jesus I Never Knew 1995
39 The Forever Feast 1993
40 The Gift Nobody Wants (With: Paul W. Brand) 1995
41 The Gift of Pain (With: Paul W. Brand) 1995
42 The Gift Nobody Wants 1995
43 The Insight Bible (With: Tim Stafford) 1995
44 The Gift of Pain 1995
45 The Insight Bible 1995
46 What's So Amazing About Grace? 1997
47 Finding God in Unexpected Places 1997
48 The Jesus I Never Knew Leader's Guide 1998
49 What's So Amazing About Grace? Study Guide (With: Brenda Quinn) 1998
50 What's So Amazing About Grace? Study Guide 1998
51 When Life Hurts: Understanding God's Place in Your Pain 1999
52 Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find? 2000
53 Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church 2001
54 Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide 2001
55 Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide (With: Brenda Quinn) 2001
56 The Bible Jesus Read 2002
57 The Bible Jesus Read Participant's Guide 2002
58 The Bible Jesus Read Leader's Guide 2002
59 Rumors of Another World 2003
60 A Skeptic's Guide to Faith 2003
61 In the Likeness of God (With: Paul W. Brand) 2004
62 Why Pray 2006
63 In the Likeness of God 2004
64 When We Hurt 2006
65 Grace Notes: April 1-30: Daily Readings with a Fellow Pilgrim 2009
66 What Good Is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace 2010
67 The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide (With: Brenda Quinn) 2010
68 The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide 2010
69 Meet the Bible: A Panorama of God's Word in 366 Daily Readings and Reflections 2010
70 Jesus 2010
71 Grace Notes Journal 2011
72 Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? 2011
73 Christians and Politics Uneasy Partners 2012
74 Prayer Bible Study Participant's Guide: Six Sessions on Our Relationship with God 2013
75 The Question That Never Goes Away 2013
76 Vanishing Grace 2014
77 Vanishing Grace Bible Study Guide: Whatever Happened to the Good News? 2014
78 A Companion in Crisis: A Modern Paraphrase of John Donne's Devotions 2021
79 The Scandal of Forgiveness: Grace Put to the Test 2021
80 Where the Light Fell 2021
81 Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions 2023
Growing Deeper Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Wisdom of Each Other 1997
2 The Wisdom of Each Other (By: Eugene H. Peterson) 1997
3 Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage 1997
4 Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage (With: Eugene H. Peterson) 1997
5 Whole Prayer: Speaking and Listening to God 2001
6 Whole Prayer: Speaking and Listening to God (By: Walter Wangerin Jr., Eugene H. Peterson) 2001
7 Where Is God When It Hurts? 2002
8 Designer Sex 2005
9 Keeping Company with God 2007
10 Getting to Know Jesus 2008
11 The Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide 2008
12 The Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide (With: Claude V) 2008
13 What's So Amazing About Grace? Participant's Guide 2008
Philip Yancey Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Chosen Vessels: Portraits of Ten Outstanding Christian Men 1985
2 Reality and the Vision 1990
3 Exploring Faith and Discipleship 1992
4 Destiny and Deliverance 1998
5 We Remember C. S. Lewis: Essays & Memoirs 2001
6 Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas 2001
7 More Than Words 2002
8 The aWAKE Project: Uniting against the African AIDS Crisis 2002
9 The aWAKE Project 2002
10 Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter 2005
11 A Syllable of Water 2008
12 Mere Christians 2009
13 Plough Quarterly No. 7 2015
14 Suffering & Glory: Meditations for Holy Week and Easter 2021
15 Songs from the Silent Passage: Essays on the Works of Walter Wangerin, Jr. 2021
16 Chasing Paper: Critical Reflections on Christian Books and Publishing 2021