Nineteen titles receive honors this year for helping readers understand the people, events, and ideas that shape evangelical life, thought, and mission. CT received 300 nominated titles from 46 publishers. This year's awards, chosen by leaders in a variety of disciplines—including academia, the church, and journalism—honor books from well-known evangelical publishers, academic presses, and mainstream houses.
Stackhouse, the Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College, Vancouver, reflects on how to share Christian faith in a postmodern world.
The prolific author and pastor completes his 12-year project to render the whole of Scripture in modern language—to the acclaim of readers ranging from J. I. Packer to Bono of U2.
Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Penn State University, explores how 21st-century Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere will be more vibrant, orthodox, and culturally transforming than it usually is in the Northern Hemisphere.
The seventh novel in Karon's Mitford series finds Father Tim and Cynthia returning to Mitford, where the Episcopal priest struggles with ennui during his retirement.
Nicholi, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explains how Lewis's Christianity and Freud's nonbelief affected not just their ideas but also their lives.
Reading for people ready to make spiritual discipline a regular practice in their lives. Sample chapters: "Radical Evil in the Human Soul," "Radical Goodness Restored to the Soul," "Transforming Our Social Dimensions," and "Transforming the Soul."
Naugle, professor of philosophy at Dallas Baptist University, surveys Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant thinkers, and describes how this concept developed in the 19th and 20th centuries.
This month, white Christians can love their Black siblings in the church by seeing their struggles in context.
Terence Lester
2003 Christianity Today Book Awards
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Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith TodayThe Message: The Bible in Contemporary LanguageThe Next Christendom: The Coming of Global ChristianityEngaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and LivingThe Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the PresentIn This MountainThe Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of LifeThe New International Dictionary of Pentecostal & Charismatic MovementsRenovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of ChristWorldview: The History of a Concept
An independent commission concluded that dozens of women were violated by Vanier and his mentor under exploitative spiritual disciplines.
Theology should produce the fruit of the Spirit, not the works of the flesh.
Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.
This month, white Christians can love their Black siblings in the church by seeing their struggles in context.
