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Christianity Today has announced its 2016 Book Awards, which you can read here.

They award a book of the year in each of the following 12 categories, along with an award of merit for each:

  1. Apologetics/Evangelism
  2. Biblical Studies
  3. Christian Living/Discipleship (tie)
  4. The Church/Pastoral Leadership
  5. Culture and the Arts
  6. Fiction
  7. History/Biography
  8. Missions/The Global Church
  9. Politics and Public Life
  10. Spiritual Formation
  11. Theology/Ethics
  12. Her.meneutics

This year they have also started a new category, the book of the year for Beautiful Orthodoxy.

I’d be remiss not to highlight the two Crossway authors whose books were CT’s books of the year in their respective categories.


 

Christian Living/Discipleship (tied with Jonathan Grant, Divine Sex: A Compelling Vision for Christian Relationships in a Hypersexualized Age [Brazos]

J51zf0+uQN9L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_oe Rigney, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts (Crossway)

“Too often, we treat delight in the beauties of nature and culture as distractions from the divine, or else consider our spiritual lives cordoned off from the rest of life—our leisure, food, clothes, relationships. Rigney invites us to enter into a more spiritually mature understanding of God’s good gifts, in order to bless God for all he gives, to mirror his generosity, and to model grace and gratitude, whether we have little or much.” —Rachel Marie Stone, blogger, author of Eat with Joy


The Church/Pastoral Leadership

downloadZack Eswine, The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus (Crossway)

“Here is a book so gritty, liberating, godly, and honest that it was hard to put down. Drawing from Scripture, theology, and close observation of life, Eswine describes the life of ministry in a way that unshackles the minister from impossible demands—and all the dread, depression, and burnout that accompanies them. For the minister, this book is full of mercy and encouragement. For everyone else, it reminds us of a glad irony: God chooses to do imperfect ministry through imperfect persons rather than personally doing it perfectly.” —Cornelius Plantinga Jr., senior research fellow at Calvin Institute of Christian Worship


Again, you can read the whole list of winners with blurbs here.

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