Christianity Today have announced the winners for their 2010 Book Awards.  This is how they describe this process…

Our judging process began with 472 titles submitted by 72 publishers. Christianity Today’s editors selected finalists in each category, and our expert judges went to work discovering the best of the bunch from 2009. Here are the 12 winners (including two ties) and 11 notables that best shed light on the people, events, and ideas that shape evangelical life, thought, and mission, with comments from the judges.

Worthy of note are two books that have been recently mentioned on CNNZ.

Firstly, in the Apologetics/ Evangelism section, the winner is God is Great, God is Good: Why Believing in God is Reasonable and Responsible Edited by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister.

Here is how the judges summarise their reasoning…

“Craig and Meister bring together cutting-edge essays that attest powerfully to the massive and growing evidence in favor of theism in general and Christianity in particular. Each essay responds to the charges made by the New Atheists, but this is by no means a polemical book. The writers set a high bar for reasonable, responsible discourse, and they live up to it.”

If you would like some more information on this title, read this previous post HERE!

Secondly, in the The Church/ Pastoral Leadership section, where there was a tie, one of the winners is Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck.

The judges explain their reasoning this way…

“DeYoung and Kluck respond to the church’s many critics with theological verve, historical backbone, biblical agility, and—above all—an infectious love for the bride of Christ, tawdry or frumpy though she can be.”

Christianity Today also link to an interview with Kevin DeYoung, which you can find HERE.

Man of Spin referenced this title in this post HERE!

You can find view the rest of the winners, and those titles that received what they describe as an Award of Merit that were close, but no cigar, HERE!

Such is an opportunity to find some quality titles for your reading in the coming days!

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