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The 2010 Christianity Today Book Awards
Apologetics/Evangelism
GOD IS GREAT, GOD IS GOOD: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible
William Lane Craig and Chad Meister, Editors (InterVarsity)
Biblical Studies
SIN: A History
Gary A. Anderson (Yale University Press)
Christianity and Culture
SOULS IN TRANSITION: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
Christian Smith with Patricia Snell (Oxford University Press)
Christian Living
I TOLD ME SO: Self-Deception and the Christian Life
Gregg A. Ten Elshof (Eerdmans)
The Church/Pastoral Leadership (tie)
DEEP CHURCH: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional
Jim Belcher (InterVarsity)
WHY WE LOVE THE CHURCH: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion
Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck (Moody)
Fiction
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Boris Jakim, translator (Eerdmans)
History/Biography
PREDESTINATION: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine
Peter J. Thuesen (Oxford University Press)
Missions/Global Affairs
THE NEW SHAPE OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith
Mark A. Noll (InterVarsity Academic)
Spirituality
LONGING FOR GOD: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion
Richard J. Foster and Gayle D. Beebe (InterVarsity)
Theology/Ethics (tie)
DESIRING THE KINGDOM: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
James K. A. Smith (Baker Academic)
THE GOD I DON’T UNDERSTAND: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith
Christopher J. H. Wright (Zondervan)
The 2010 CT Awards of Merit
Apologetics/Evangelism
FAITH AT THE EDGE: A Book for Doubters
Robert N. Wennberg (Eerdmans)
Biblical Studies
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL COMMENTARY ON THE NEW TESTAMENT: The First and Second Letters to the Thessalonians
Gordon D. Fee (Eerdmans)
Christianity and Culture
AMERICAN BABYLON: Notes of a Christian Exile
Richard John Neuhaus (Basic)
Christian Living
SINGLED OUT: Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today’s Church
Christine A. Colón and Bonnie E. Field (Brazos)
The Church/Pastoral Leadership
THE MONKEY AND THE FISH: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture Church
Dave Gibbons (Zondervan)
Fiction
ANGEL TIME
Anne Rice (Knopf)
History/Biography
THE SISTERS OF SINAI: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
Janet Soskice (Knopf)
Missions/Global Affairs (tie)
THE HOLE IN OUR GOSPEL: What Does God Expect of Us?
Richard Stearns (Thomas Nelson)
THE WORLD MISSIONARY CONFERENCE, EDINBURGH 1910
Brian Stanley (Eerdmans)
Spirituality
THE END OF SUFFERING: Finding Purpose in Pain
Scott Cairns (Paraclete)
Theology/Ethics
KNOWING CHRIST TODAY: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge
Dallas Willard (HarperOne)
(Source: Christian Newswire)