Read Any of These?
Christianity Today has announced their 2007 Book Awards with twenty-two titles that “bring understanding to people, events, and ideas that shape evangelical life, thought, and mission.”
Apologetics/Evangelism
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, Francis S. Collins
Biblical Studies
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, Richard Bauckham
Christianity and Culture
The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World, Miroslav Volf
Christian Living
Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? Philip Yancey
The Church/ Pastoral Leadership
Simple Church: Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger
Fiction
Dwelling Places, Vinita Hampton Wright
History/Biography
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, Harry S. Stout
Missions/Global Affairs
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative, Christopher J. H. Wright
Spirituality
The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life, Robert E. Webber
Theology/Ethics
The Shadow of the Antichrist: Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity, Stephen N. Williams
Awards of Merit
Apologetics/Evangelism
Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense, N. T. Wright
Biblical Studies
The Message of the Old Testament: Promises Made, Mark Dever
Christianity and Culture (tie)
Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity, Edward Gilbreath
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church, James A. Smith
Christian Living (tie)
The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus' Essential Teachings on Discipleship, Dallas Willard
Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of an Untamable God, Mark Galli
The Church/ Pastoral Leadership
Why Church Matters: Worship, Ministry and Mission in Practice, Jonathan R. Wilson
Fiction
Winter Birds, Jamie Langston Turner
History/Biography
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, Michael Kazin
Missions/Global Affairs
The New Faces of Christianity: Believing in the Bible in the Global South, Philip Jenkins
Spirituality
Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading, Eugene H. Peterson
Theology/ Ethics
Evil and the Justice of God, N. T. Wright