2008 Book of the Year & Top Ten Books, published in 2007
plus the Reference Book of the Year Award
Selected by the Academy of Parish Clergy (www.apclergy.org)
Announced April 30, 2008 at APC's Annual Conference
God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America, by E. Brooks Holifield (William B. Eerdmans Publ. Co) - Book of the Year
The Gospel of Matthew (New International Commentary on the New Testament), by R. T. France (William B. Eerdmans Publ. Co) - Reference Book of the Year
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The following nine books, of the Top Ten, are listed in alphabetical order, by title:
A City Sent On A Hill: How Sermons Changed the Course of American History, by Larry Witham (HarperOne Publishers)
Child Poverty: Love, Justice, and Social Responsibility, by Pamela Couture (Chalice Press)
Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution - A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First, by Alister McGrath (HarperOnce Publishers)
Empire: The Christian Tradition, New Readings of Classical Theologians, ed. by Kwok Pui-lan, Don H. Compier, and Joerge Rieger (Fortress Press)
God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now, by John Dominic Crossan (HarperSanFrancisco Publishers)
Just Policing, Not War: An Alternative Response to World Violence, ed., by Gerald W. Schlabach (Liturgical Press)
The Jesus Way: A Conversation of the Ways that Jesus Is The Way, by Eugene Peterson (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)
The Toxic Congregation: How to Heal the Soul of Your Church, by G. Lloyd Rediger (Abingdoin Press)
There Is A God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, by Antony Flex (HarperOne Publishers)