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
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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
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Titolo
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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
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Titolo
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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