2009 Book of the Year & Top Ten Books published in 2008, plus the Reference Book of the Year Award, selected by the Academy of Parish Clergy (www.apclergy.org) and formally announced Feb. 17, 2009 at APC'c Annual Conference. Books are selected for their excellence, newness of subject, and appropriateness for the spiritual growth, academic excellence and development of the art, practice and skills of congregational leadership.
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, by N. T. Wright (HarperOne) - Book of the Year
Zondervan Bible Commentary (One-Volume Illustrated Edition), F. F. Bruce, General Editor (Zondervan Publishers) - 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 Broad Place: An Autobiography, by Jurgen Moltmann (Fortress Press)
A Short World History of Christianity, by Robert Bruce Mullin (Westminster John Knox Press)
Christ and Culture Revisited, by D. A. Carson (William R. Eerdmans Publishing Co.)
Cross Talk: Preaching Redemption Here and Now, by Sally A. Brown (Westminster John Knox Press)
Original Sin: A Cultural History, by Alan Jacobs (HarperOne)
Practical Theology: An Introduction, by Richard R. Osmer (William R. Eerdmans Publishing Co.)
The Church: The Evolution of Catholicism, by Richard P. McBrien (HarperOne)
The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa and Asia - And How It Died, by Philip Jenkins (HarperOne)
Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction From C. S. Lewis, edited by Paul F. Ford, by C. S. Lewis (HarperOne)