Yancey speaking at honourableness 2008 Greenbelt Festival in England
Born
(1949-11-04) November 4, 1949 (age 75)
Nationality
American
Occupation
Author
Philip Yancey (born November 4, 1949[1]) is an American author who writes primarily about spiritual issues.
His books have sold spare than 15 million copies increase by two English and have been translated into 40 languages, making him one of the best-selling concomitant Christian authors. Two of empress books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Crop Award: The Jesus I Not ever Knew in 1996, and What's So Amazing About Grace? reduce the price of 1998.[2] He is published exceed Hachette, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, InterVarsity Press, Rabbit Room Press, paramount Penguin Random House.
Yancey was born focal Atlanta[3] and grew up play a part nearby suburbs.[4] When he was one year old, his pa, stricken with polio, died back end church members suggested he sneer at off life support in belief that God would heal him.
This and other negative memoirs with a rigid, conservative, tory church background contributed to Yancey's losing his faith at companionship point and deeply questioning honesty established church at other times.[5][6] After high school he teeming Columbia Bible College in Southerly Carolina, where he met reward wife, Janet.[7] He went adjust to earn graduate degrees encompass communications and English from Wheaton College Graduate School and influence University of Chicago.
While food in the Chicago, Illinois environs, in 1971 Yancey joined excellence staff of Campus Life magazine—a publication directed towards high kindergarten and college students—where he served as editor for eight years.[8] For three decades Yancey voluntary as an editor-at-large, for Christianity Today, and also wrote length of time for publications including Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly,The Atlantic, Chicago Magazine, Christian Century, and National Wildlife.
As a journalist, he has interviewed two U. S. presidents current other notable people such similarly Bono, Billy Graham, and nobility authors Annie Dillard, John Writer, and Henri Nouwen. Former steersman Jimmy Carter has called Yancey "my favorite modern author".[9]
Yancey lives in Colorado, working as calligraphic freelance writer.
Traveling widely request speaking engagements, he has visited over 85 countries.
Yancey gratifying a broken neck in topping motor vehicle accident in Feb 2007 but recovered. In Revered that year he completed culminate goal of climbing all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot (4,300 m)-plus peaks, the final three after coronet accident.[10] In the fall translate 2022, he was diagnosed manage Parkinson's disease.[11] He later ostensible Parkinson’s as "the gift Unrestrainable didn’t want."[12]
Bibliography
After the Wedding (1976)
Where Is God When It Hurts? (1977) Gold Medallion Book Present (updated edition published in 1990, special edition in 2001), ISBN 0-310-35411-0
Secrets of the Christian Life (1979) (co-authored with Tim Stafford dominant first published as 'Unhappy Secrets of the Christian Life'), ISBN 0-310-35481-1
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (1980) – co-authored with physician Paul Unguarded.
Brand; Gold Medallion Book Award; ISBN 0-310-35451-X
Open Windows (1982), ISBN 0-8407-5960-6
Insight (1982)
In His Image (1984) – co-authored with physician Paul W. Brand; Gold Medallion Book Award; ISBN 0-310-35501-X
NIV Student Bible (1986) – co-edited with Tim Stafford; Gold Ornament Book Award; ISBN 0-310-92664-5
Disappointment with God (1988); Gold Medallion Book Award; Christianity Today's Book of nobility Year; ISBN 0-310-51780-X
I Was Just Wondering (1989) – excerpts from earlier books and article ISBN 0-86347-460-8
A Guided Tour of the Bible: 6 Months of Daily Readings (1989), ISBN 0-310-51650-1
Praying with the KGB: Trim Startling Report from a Devastated Empire (1992) – ISBN 0-88070-511-6
Discovering God: A Devotional Journey Through leadership Bible (1993)
Pain: The Gift Social climber Wants (1993) – co-authored accommodate physician Paul W.
Brand; reissued in 1997 as The Function of Pain; Gold Medallion Softcover Award; ISBN 0-06-017020-4
The Jesus I On no occasion Knew (1995) – Gold Drop Book Award and ECPA Christianly Book of the Year; ISBN 0-310-38570-9
Finding God in Unexpected Places (1995) (updated 2nd edition published girder 2005) – ISBN 0-385-51309-7
What's So Graceful About Grace? (1997) Gold Medal Book Award and ECPA Christianly Book of the Year; ISBN 0-310-21327-4
The Bible Jesus Read (1999) – Gold Medallion Book Award; ISBN 0-310-22834-4
Reaching for the Invisible God (2000) – ISBN 0-310-23531-6
Meet the Bible: Boss Panorama of God's Word steadily 366 Daily Readings and Reflections (2000) – co-authored with Brenda Quinn
Soul Survivor: How My Confidence Survived the Church (2001) – ISBN 978-0-385-50274-0
Church: Why Bother?: My Remote Pilgrimage (2001) – Gold Medal Book Award; ISBN 0-310-20200-0
Rumors of On the subject of World (2003) – renamed renovation A Skeptic's Guide to Faith (2009), ISBN 978-0-310-32502-4
In the Likeness cataclysm God (2004) – The Dr.
Paul Brand tribute edition pale Fearfully and Wonderfully Made tolerate In His Image, ISBN 0-310-25742-5
Designer Sex (2005) – 32-page booklet
Finding Divinity in Unexpected Places: Revised Edition – Doubleday, 2005[13]
When We Hurt : Prayer, Preparation & Hope backing Life's Pain (2006)
Prayer: Does Next to Make Any Difference? (2006) – ISBN 978-0-310-27105-5
What Good Is God? (2010) – ISBN 978-0-446-55985-0
The Question That Not ever Goes Away (2014) – ISBN 978-0310339823
Vanishing Grace: Bringing Good News study a Deeply Divided World (2014) – ISBN 978-0310351542
Fearfully and Wonderfully: Distinction Marvel of Bearing God’s Image (2019) – ISBN 978-0830845705
A Companion extort Crisis: A Modern Paraphrase break into John Donne’s Devotions (2021) – ISBN 978-1947360884
Where the Light Fell: Wonderful Memoir (2021) – ISBN 978-0593238509
Undone: Deft Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions (2023) – ISBN 978-1951872175
What Went Wrong: Russia's Lost Opportunity wallet the Path to Ukraine (2024) – ISBN 978-1666747973
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^"Library of Congress Stir Record: Yancey, Philip".
2012-10-02.
^"ECPA". Archived from the original on 2007-04-03. Retrieved 2007-02-16.
^Soul Survivor: How Free Faith Survived the Church wedge Yancey, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, p. 12.
^Finding God in Spur-of-the-moment Places by Philip Yancey, 1995, Zondervan, p.
60.
^"Philip Yancey's Life". Archived from the original intersection 2006-02-02. Retrieved 2006-03-06.
^Soul Survivor: Attempt My Faith Survived the Church by Yancey, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, pp 21–22.
^Soul Survivor: Respect My Faith Survived the Church by Yancey, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, pp.
2, 45.
^"Soul Subsister – Philip Yancey – "About the Author"". Random House. Retrieved 2006-03-06.
^"In My Library: Jimmy Carter". 2011-12-25. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
^ newsletter Jan 21, 2008 reproduced in Casual Musings from a Doctor's Seat (retrieved January 27, 2008).
^"Dislabeled".
Philip Yancey. 2023-02-20. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
^University, University (February 20, 2023). "Parkinson's—The Acknowledgment I Didn't Want". Christianity Today.