The staff of Christianity Today has selected 22 books as winners of its annual Christianity Today Book Awards for 2006. This year 37 publishers nominated 240 titles. Winning titles “bring understanding to people, events and ideas that shape evangelical life, thought and mission,” the magazine staff said in a statement.

The winners were as follows: Apologetics/Evangelism, Is Jesus the Only Savior?, James R. Edwards (Eerdmans); Biblical Studies, Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Craig G. Bartholomew, Daniel J. Treier and N.T. Wright, eds. (Baker Academic); Christianity and Culture, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, Christian Smith with Melinda Lundquist Denton (Oxford); Christian Living, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?, Ronald J. Sider (Baker); The Church/Pastoral Leadership, The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching: A Comprehensive Resource for Today's Communicators, Haddon Robinson and Craig Brian Larson, eds. (Zondervan); Fiction, This Heavy Silence, Nicole Mazzarella (Paraclete); History/Biography, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis, Alan Jacobs (HarperSanFrancisco); Missions/Global Affairs, Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission, Dean E. Flemming (IVP); Spirituality, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology, Eugene H. Peterson (Eerdmans); Theology/Ethics, The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology, Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Westminster John Knox).

Awards of Merit were given to the following: Apologetics/Evangelism, So Much More: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality, Debra Rienstra (Jossey-Bass); Biblical Studies, The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture, N. T. Wright (HarperSanFrancisco); Christianity and Culture, America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity, Robert Wuthnow (Princeton); Christian Living (tie) Finding Our Way Home: Turning Back to What Matters Most, Mark R. McMinn (Jossey-Bass) and Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity, Lauren F. Winner (Brazos); The Church/Pastoral Leadership, Ministry in the Image of God: The Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service, Stephen Seamands (IVP); Fiction, Startling Joy: Seven Magical Stories of Christmas, James Calvin Schaap (Revell); History/Biography (tie), The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success, Rodney Stark (Random House) and Why Study the Past? The Quest for the Historical Church, Rowan Williams (Eerdmans); Missions/Global Affairs, The Changing Face of World Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends, Michael Pocock, Gailyn Van Rheenen and Douglas McConnell, eds. (Baker Academic); Spirituality, Born Again and Again: Surprising Gifts of a Fundamentalist Childhood, Jon M. Sweeney (Paraclete); Theology/Ethics, Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism, Mark A. Noll and Carolyn Nystrom (Baker Academic).

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