Recent Awards and Honors

Finding God
Finding God

Nautilus Book Award
Silver Nautilus Award in the Religion/Spirituality—Western Traditions category

I Lay My Stitches Down
I Lay My Stitches Down

Nautilus Book Award
Gold Nautilus Award in the Children's Illustrated (Grades 3-6) category

The Spirit and the Christ in the New Testament and Christian Theology
"The Persecuted Prophets: A Mirror Image of Luke's Spirit-Inspired Church" by Robert P. Menzies
"New Jerusalem and the Conversion of the Nations: An Exercise in Pneumatic Discernment" by John Christopher Thomas

The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship (TFFPS)
2013 Awards of Excellence, short works
More info here.

Being Good
Being Good: Christian Virtues for Everyday Life

Michael W. Austin
R. Douglas Geivett
The Character Project, book prize
More info here.

Dementia
Dementia: Living in the Memories of God

John Swinton

Academy of Parish Clergy
Top Ten Books for Parish Ministry 2012

The Gospel of John
The Gospel of John: A Commentary

Frederick Dale Bruner

Academy of Parish Clergy
Top Ten Books for Parish Ministry 2012

Sharing God's Good Company

David Matzko McCarthy

Library Journal
Best Books 2012: Spiritual Living

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible

James C. VanderKam

American Schools of Oriental Research
2012 Frank Moore Cross Award

Living into Community: Cultivating Practices that Sustain Us

Christine D. Pohl

Englewood Review of Books
2012 Book of the Year

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible

James C. VanderKam

Frank Moore Cross Award
Presented by the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)

Happiness

Joan Chittister

2012 Nautilus Silver Award
Category: Personal Growth/Self-Help — Psychology

Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry

Hans Boersma

2012 Word Guild Awards
Award of Merit, Book: Academic

Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church

William T. Cavanaugh

2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards
First Place, Social Concerns

Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church: The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians

Luke Timothy Johnson

2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards
First Place, Scripture

The Analogy of Being: Invention of the Antichrist or the Wisdom of God?

Thomas Joseph White, ed.

2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards
Second Place, Theology

Praying with the Earth: A Prayerbook for Peace

John Philip Newell

2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards
Third Place, Spirituality (Hardcover)

The Letter to the Galatians (The Bible in Medieval Tradition)

Ian Christopher Levy

2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards
Third Place, Scripture

Witness of the Body: The Past, Present, and Future of Christian Martyrdom

Michael L. Budde and Karen Scott, eds.

2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards
Third Place, History

The Lord as Their Portion: The Story of the Religious Orders and How They Shaped Our World

Elizabeth Rapley

2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards
Honorary Mention, History

A Different Kind of Cell: The Story of a Murderer Who Became a Monk

W. Paul Jones

2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards
Honorary Mention, Biography

Happiness

Joan Chittister

2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards
Honorary Mention, Spirituality (Hardcover)

What Shall We Say?

Thomas G. Long

Academy of Parish Clergy
Book of the Year, 2012

Resonant Witness

Jeremy S. Begbie
Steven Guthrie

Academy of Parish Clergy
Top Ten Books for Parish Ministry, 2012

Not Sure

John Suk

Academy of Parish Clergy
Top Ten Books for Parish Ministry, 2012

Infinity Dwindled to Infancy

Edward T. Oakes

Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue Book Prize 2012

The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism

John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow, eds.

Choice Magazine
Outstanding Academic Titles, 2011

Word Made Global

Mark Gornik

Christianity Today Book Awards 2012
Mission/Global Affairs (winner)

Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind

Mark A. Noll

Christianity Today Book Awards 2012
Christianity and Culture (award of merit)

The Insulted and Injured

Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. Boris Jakim

Christianity Today Book Awards 2012
Fiction (award of merit)

Michigan Polar Bear Received a 2011 Historical Society of Michigan State History Award

The Historical Society of Michigan presented its 2011 State History Awards in September, recognizing four books with State History Awards in the Publications: University and Commercial Press category. The first of these honors was posthumously awarded to Godfrey Anderson’s A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks: A War Memoir, expertly edited by Gordon L. Olson.

Eight Eerdmans Authors Received 2011 Catholic Press Association Awards

The Catholic Press Association selected Maurice Blondel by Oliva Blanchette as the winner in the Biography Category, New Proofs for the Existence of God by Robert J. Spitzer, S.J. as winner in the Faith and Sciences Category, and gave second and third place honors to six other Eerdmans titles. To see the full list of award winners, read the The Catholic Journalist.

Nathan MacDonald Received the 2011 Freedman Award

The Society of Biblical Literature has awarded the 2011 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship to Nathan MacDonald for his paper, “Ritual Innovation: The Feast of Weeks from the Covenant Code to the Temple Scroll.” MacDonald is lecturer in Old Testament at St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews, and the author of What Did the Ancient Israelites Eat? Diet in Biblical Times.

Piet Naudé Awarded the Andrew Murray–Desmond Tutu Book Prize

South African professor and author Piet Naudé’s new book, Neither Calendar nor Clock: Perspectives on the Belhar Confession, was awarded the prestigious Andrew Murray–Desmond Tutu Prize for 2011. Visit the NMMU website for more details.

 

Academy of Parish Clergy Awarded Three Eerdmans Titles

The Academy of Parish Clergy awarded Martin E. Marty's Building Cultures of Trust the 2011 Book of the Year Award and listed two other Eerdmans titles as Top Ten Books of 2011: Hannah's Child by Stanley Hauerwas and Practice Resurrection by Eugene Peterson. For the full list of winning titles, visit Sharing the Practice, the Academy of Parish Clergy blog.

Three Eerdmans Authors Received 2011 Christianity Today Book Awards

Christianity Today selected Hope in a Scattering Time by Eric Miller as the winner in History and Biography, Practice Resurrection by Eugene Peterson as the winner in Spirituality, and recognized Calvin's Ladder by Julie Canlis with an award of merit in Theology and Ethics. For the full list of winning titles, visit ChristianityToday.com.

The Word of God for the People of God Won the 2011 CCED Book Prize

The Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue awarded J. Todd Billings's The Word of God for the People of God the 2011 CCED Book Prize for its significant contribution to biblical interpretation. Visit the CCED website for more information about this award.

To find out about honors given to our Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, visit the EBYR awards page.

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