Books of the Year

Here’s the Christianity Today picks for books of the year.

Apologetics/Evangelism
There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
Antony Flew with Roy Abraham Varghese

Biblical Studies
The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition
Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory A. Boyd

Christianity and Culture:
Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite
D. Michael Lindsay

Christian Living
Caring for Mother: A Daughter's Long Goodbye
Virginia Stem Owens

The Church/Pastoral Leadership
The Call to Joy and Pain: Embracing Suffering in Your Ministry
Ajith Fernando

Fiction
Quaker Summer
Lisa Samson

History/Biography
A Secular Age
Charles Taylor

Missions/Global Affairs
Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity
Lamin O. Sanneh

Spirituality
The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way
Eugene H. Peterson

Theology/Ethics
Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music
Jeremy S. Begbie