Christopher Gehrz’s The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education (IVP Academic) has been selected as a finalist for the Lilly Fellows Program Book Award.

The Lilly Fellows Program Book Award is a part of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, based at Valparaiso University’s Christ College in Valparaiso, Indiana. The biennial award honors an original and imaginative work from any academic discipline that best exemplifies faith and learning in the Christian intellectual tradition, the vocation of teaching and scholarship, and the history, theory or practice of the university as the site of religious inquiry and culture.

Works considered for this year’s award address the historical or contemporary relationship of Christian intellectual life and scholarship to the practice of teaching as a Christian vocation or to the past, present and future of higher education. Authors and editors did not nominate their own works. For more information visit lillyfellows.org.

David Congdon, associate editor for IVP Academic, explained why Gehrz’s book was selected as a finalist.

“Pietism is frequently overlooked or dismissed in conversations about evangelicalism and Christian history more generally,” said Congdon. “As a result, the resources from this rich tradition are not mined for their potential insights into the issues facing us today. The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education is an attempt to rectify this gap in the conversation with respect to the challenges of Christian higher education. Christopher Gehrz brought together an exceptional group of contributors, and the result is a book that shows the relevance of Pietism for shaping the future of higher education. In a society that seems to grow more fractured with each passing day, the Pietist vision of forming ‘whole and holy persons’ is more timely than ever.”

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