2001 Christianity Today Book Awards

Each winter brings a different sort of blizzard to Christianity Today's offices in the western suburbs of Chicago as publishers deluge us with nominations for our Annual Book Awards. We consider it an honor that so many publishers—from small, family-owned companies to university presses—are vying for the attention of our judges.

No list, however comprehensive, can possibly honor every worthy book published in a given year. Sometimes our judges are so divided that their voting results in a tie, as in two of this year's categories. Other titles receive Awards of Merit because they came so close to the top of the list.

Next year we plan to improve the awards still further by refining categories, adding judges, and assigning judges to their specific areas of interest. Meanwhile, these are the books from 2000 that most captured the imaginations of some of the most engaged readers in evangelicalism.

Apologetics/Evangelism
Time for Truth
Os Guinness
BAKER

Biblical Studies
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon
Edited by Peter Gorday and Thomas C. Oden
INTERVARSITY

Christian Living
Death on a Friday Afternoon
Richard John Neuhaus
BASIC

Christianity and Culture
Border Crossings
Rodney Clapp
BAKER

Christianity and Culture
Habits of the Mind
James W. Sire
INTERVARSITY

The Church/Pastoral Leadership
ChurchNext
Eddie Gibbs
INTERVARSITY

Fiction
Paul: A Novel
Walter Wangerin Jr.
ZONDERVAN

History/Biography
The Smell of Sawdust
Richard J. Mouw
ZONDERVAN

Missions/Global Affairs
Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?
Gerald R. McDermott
INTERVARSITY

Missions/Global Affairs
Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions
Edited by A. Scott Moreau
BAKER

Spirituality
Reaching for the Invisible God
Philip Yancey
ZONDERVAN

Theology/Ethics
Renewing the Center
Stanley J. Grenz
BAKER

Awards of Merit

Apologetics/Evangelism
The Case for Faith
Lee Strobel(ZONDERVAN)

Truth Decay
Douglas Groothuis(INTERVARSITY)

Biblical Studies
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude
Edited by Gerald Bray and Thomas C. Oden(INTERVARSITY)

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by David Noel Freedman(EERDMANS)

Christianity and Culture
Divided by Faith
Michael O. Emerson & Christian Smith(OXFORD)

The Wedge of Truth
Philip E. Johnson(INTERVARSITY)

Who Are We?
Jean Bethke Elshtain(EERDMANS)

Spirituality
The American Paradox
David G. Myers(YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS)

The Best Christian Writing 2000
John Wilson(HARPERSANFRANCISCO)