The Jesus I Never Knew

“This is the best book about Jesus I have ever read, probably the best book about Jesus in the whole century. Yancey gently took away my blinders and blazed the trail through my own doubting fears, pious know-it-all, and critical balderdash until I saw the Savior anew and thought I heard him ask me, ‘Now who do you say that I am?’ and I understood the question as I never had before.”

Lewis B. Smedes, author of Forgive and Forget

“Yancey’s flair for honest, vivid, well-informed down-to-earthness gives piercing power to these broodings on the gospel facts about Jesus Christ. In a day when novel ideas about Jesus are all the rage, Yancey’s pages offer major help for seeing the Savior as he really was.”

James I. Packer, Regent College, author of Knowing God

“When we look hard into God’s Word, we always learn something new about Jesus. Thanks, Philip, for pointing the way in your book.”

Joni Eareckson Tada, president, Joni and Friends

“Philip Yancey is both more personal and more focused on Jesus than perhaps he has ever been before. Jesus becomes, under his faithful eye, human and divine and powerfully present, in the text of Scripture and in our lives. It is Yancey’s progressions—from a view of our Lord too narrow for the full promises of the Bible to a presence both broad and blessed—which is the genuine gift of this book.”

Walter Wangerin, Jr., author of The Book of God
and Paul: A Novel

“In the more than twenty years I’ve known Philip Yancey, he’s shown a deep and persistent hunger for the truth in Jesus. I would rather read his words on Jesus than almost any other contemporary’s, for I know that he speaks from deep learning and deep passion.”

Tim Stafford

“Philip Yancey can always be counted on not only to tell the truth, but to pursue it with passion. In The Jesus I Never Knew, he continues the hunt.”

Virginia Stem Owens, Kansas Newman College

“Philip Yancey takes the reader with him on his very personal journey to Jesus. In The Jesus I Never Knew, I became convinced that the Jesus I met—in some ways for the first time—has known me all along. This book is destined to become a favorite—to recommend to those still seeking Jesus and to pass along to those who’ve met him, but long to know him more.”

Elisa Morgan, President, MOPS International

In The Jesus I Never Knew, Yancey both educates and inspires the reader to take a closer look at the biblical Jesus and his motivations. In doing so, he helps us gain new perspective on what it truly means to be a follower of Christ. Even those who think they know Jesus well will find new information and meaning in this remarkable book.”

Dale Hanson Bourke

“In his unique, challenging, and careful way, Philip Yancey breaks through stale stereotypes to give us a powerful antidote to the ‘Prozac Jesus’ and other inadequate images, to reveal the complex reality and impact of Jesus of Nazareth on all of life. A fresh and helpful book.”

Roberta Hestenes, President, Eastern College