(RNS)—Christianity Today magazine has chosen its top books for 2007, awarding honors in 10 categories for work of interest to evangelical Christians.
Ten winners of the Christianity Today Book Award 2007 were chosen in the following categories:
• Apologetics/Evangelism: The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins (Free Press)
• Biblical Studies: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham (Eerdmans)
• Christianity and Culture: The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World by Miroslav Volf (Eerdmans)
• Christian Living: Prayer: Does it Make Any Difference? by Philip Yancey (Zondervan)
• The Church/Pastoral Leadership: Simple Church: Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples by Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger (B&H Publishing)
• Fiction: Dwelling Places by Vinita Hampton Wright (HarperSanFrancisco)
• History/Biography: Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout (Viking)
• Missions/Global Affairs: The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative by Christopher J.H. Wright (IVP Academic)
• Spirituality: The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life by Robert E. Webber (Baker Books)
• Theology/Ethics: The Shadow of the Antichrist: Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity by Stephen N. Williams (Baker Academic)