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

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