This year, 37 publishers nominated 240 titles. CT staff selected the top books in each category, and then panels of judges (one panel for each category) voted. In the end, we chose 22 titles that bring understanding to people, events, and ideas that shape evangelical life, thought, and mission. Selections of our judges' comments follow the titles of the winners.
APOLOGETICS/EVANGELISM Is Jesus The Only Savior? James R. Edwards (Eerdmans)
Just the right book to speak to those in the church who find it hard, if not impossible, to reconcile their faith in one who claimed to be the only begotten Son of God with their (often unconscious) cultural commitment to relativism, pluralism, and multiculturalism. A book that will also speak to skeptics and seekers who are drawn to Christ.
BIBLICAL STUDIES Dictionary For Theological Interpretation Of The Bible Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Craig G. Bartholomew, Daniel J. Treier, and N.T. Wright, eds. (Baker Academic)
A landmark volume for the church's engagement with Scripture. It will be a basic resource on the role and use of the Bible.
CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers Christian Smith with Melinda Lundquist Denton (Oxford)
A masterful, scholarly study of spirituality. What American youth mostly hold to—what Smith and Denton call Moralistic Therapeutic Deism—is, sadly, a long way from full-blooded, traditional Christian faith.
Fiction This Heavy Silence Nicole Mazzarella (Paraclete)
Nuanced characterization, finely wrought scene-setting, subtlety in addressing questions of faith, repentance, and forgiveness. Mazzarella appreciates the ways that decent, hardworking, righteous people can be tempted to go astray. Her characters are developed masterfully, and her prose style is both beautiful and precise.
History/Biography The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis Alan Jacobs (HarperSanFrancisco)
If you want to read just one book about C. S. Lewis, this is it. A deeply insightful yet broadly accessible intellectual biography, written in an engaging voice.
SPIRITUALITY Christ Plays In Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology Eugene H. Peterson (Eerdmans)
Authoritative, vital, timely, scriptural, and urgently spiritual. Oh, that worldwide Christianity would borrow a page, if not entire chapters, from this uncompromising thesis on what it means to let God play out his life through his broken people and their redemptive communities of faith.
THEOLOGY/ETHICS The Drama Of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Westminster John Knox)
A substantial contribution to contemporary evangelical theological method. Erudite and creative, it does not cover old ground. Will stimulate thought and discussion about difficult questions and possible solutions to thorny theological problems for a long time.
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Akosua Frempong
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While we pray for peace, we need moral clarity about this war.
A decade later, I became a Christian.
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