Christianity Today Book Awards 2003
Evangelical leaders in numerous disciplines choose
the year's top titles.
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.
 Apologetics/Evangelism
16 Nominees
Humble
Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today
John G. Stackhouse Jr. (Oxford)
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.
 Biblical
Studies
36 Nominees
The
Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
Eugene Peterson (NavPress)
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.
 Christianity
and Culture
51 Nominees
The
Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
Philip Jenkins (Oxford)
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.
 Christian
Living
40 Nominees
Engaging
God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living
Cornelius Plantinga Jr. (Eerdmans)
The president of Calvin Theological Seminary writes on the grand
theological themes of Creation, Fall, and Redemption.
 The
Church/Pastoral Leadership
24 Nominees
The
Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present
Richard Lischer, ed. (Eerdmans)
Lischer, a professor at Duke University Divinity School, gathers
insights on one of the highest forms of verbal communication.
 Fiction
25 Nominees
In
This Mountain
Jan Karon
(Viking)
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.
 History/Biography
30 Nominees
The
Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex,
and the Meaning of Life
Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
(Free Press)
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.
 Missions/Global
Affairs
13 Nominees
The
New International Dictionary of Pentecostal & Charismatic Movements
Stanley M. Burgess, ed.
(Zondervan) Weighing in at nearly 1,300 pages, this comprehensive work
covers the world of enthusiastic Christianity from Africa, Central, to
Zopfi, Jacob.
 Spirituality
30 Nominees
Renovation
of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ
Dallas Willard (NavPress)
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."
 Theology/Ethics
35 Nominees
Worldview:
The History of a Concept
David K. Naugle (Eerdmans)
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.
Jimmy H. Davis and Harry
L. Poe (Broadman & Holman)
Christian Living
Practicing
Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life
Miroslav Volf and Dorothy
Bass (Eerdmans)
The Church/Pastoral Leadership
The
Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative
Steven Mathewson (Baker Academic)
Fiction
Just
Shy of Harmony
Philip Gulley (HarperSanFrancisco)
History/Biography
The
Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity
Mark A. Noll (Eerdmans)
Spirituality
Teaching
the Dead Bird to Sing: Living the Hermit Life Without and Within
W. Paul Jones (Paraclete)
Theology/Ethics
Is
the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?: Understanding the Difference
Between Christianity and Islam
Timothy George (Zondervan)
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