For the second year in a row, InterVarsity Press (IVP) books topped the Christianity Today Book Awards, announced this week by the magazine.

Seventy-two publishers nominated 472 titles published last year for the publication's annual list of best books. Christianity Today editors selected the top books in each category, with panels of judges then choosing 12 winners--including two ties--and also making 11 awards of merit.

IVP was recognized four times, with awards in the Apologetics/Evangelism category for God is Good, God is Great: Why Believing in God is Reasonable and Responsible by editors William Lane Craig and Chad Meister; Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional by Jim Belcher (InterVarsity) in the Church/Pastoral Leadership category; The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith by Mark A. Noll (InterVarsity Academic) in the Missions/Global Affairs category; and Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion by Richard J. Foster and Gayle D. Beebe in the Spirituality category.

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. was recognized twice in the Christian Living category for I Told Me So: Self-Deception and the Christian Life by Gregg A. Ten Elshof and Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky with translator Boris Jakim in the Fiction category. Oxford University Press was also recognized twice in the Christianity and Culture category for Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults by Christian Smith with Patricia Snell (Oxford University Press) and Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine by Peter J. Thuesen in the History/Biography category.

Other winners in the 21st annual listing were: Sin: A History by Gary A. Anderson (Yale University Press) in the Biblical Studies category; Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck (Moody Publishers) in the Church/Pastoral Leadership category; and Desiring the Kingdom: Worship Worldview, and Cultural Formation by James K. A. Smith (Baker Academic/Baker Publishing Group) and The God I Don't Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith by Christopher J. H. Wright (Zondervan) in the Theology/Ethics category.

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