ChristianityToday's Top 12 Books for 2010

Here's the Christianity Today's list of 12 books for 2010. They have been selected out of 472 entries.

1. APOLOGETICS: "God is Great, God is Good: Why Believing in God is Reasonable and Responsible" (William Lane Craig and Chad Meister);
2. BIBLICAL STUDIES: "Sin: A History" (Gary A Anderson)
3. CULTURE: "Souls in Transition" (Christian Smith with Patricia Snell)
4. CHURCH: "Deep Church" (Jim Belcher) 
5. CHRISTIAN LIVING: "Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion" (Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck)
6. "I Told Me So: Self-Deception and the Christian Life"  (Gregg A Ten Elshof)
7. FICTION: "Notes from Underground" (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
8. HISTORY: "Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine" (Peter J Thuesen)
9. SPIRITUALITY: "Longing for God" (Richard Foster & Gayle D Beebe)
10. MISSIONS: "The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith" (Mark Noll)
11. THEOLOGY/ETHICS: "Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview and Cultural Formation" (James K A Smith)
12. THEOLOGY/ETHICS: "The God I Don't Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith" (Christopher J H Wright)

They are all so tempting. I only managed to get my hands on Foster's book on spirituality. For the year running, a Regent Professor's book gets an Award of Merit: Gordon Fee's commentary on Thessalonians. 

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