Academy of Parish Clergy Book of the Year Awards for 2018
2018 Academy of Parish Clergy
Book of the Year Announcement
The Academy of Parish Clergy, Inc. proudly announces that
the 2018 Book of the Year Award has been awarded to Saved by Faith and Hospitality by Joshua W. Jipp and published by Wm.
B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (2017). Jipp is Assistant Professor of New
Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. The Book of the Year Award is
given to the best book published for parish ministry in the previous year. In
addition, the Academy presents the Reference Book of the Year Award to Acts: Belief: A Theological Commentary on
the Bible by Willie James Jennings and published by Westminster John Knox
Publishing Company (2017)). Jennings is Associate Professor of Systematic
Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School.
In addition to the Book of the Year and Reference Book of
the Year awards, the Academy offers two lists of books recommended for use by
clergy in parish ministry. The first list offers the Top Ten Books for Parish Ministry
published in 2017. The second list offers the Top Five Reference Books for
Parish Ministry. They display an excellence and helpfulness that clergy are
invited to incorporate into their libraries to benefit their ministries. The
two lists appear below alphabetically by author name.
The awards and book lists were presented at the 2018 Annual
Meeting of the Academy of Parish Clergy on April 17, 2018 at the Siena
Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin. Dr. Jipp was able to be present and
shared a word about his book. Unfortunately, Dr. James was not able to be
present, but he was recognized for his outstanding work.
Book
of the Year Committee: Robert
Cornwall, Chair, Henry Coates, and Jess Scholten.
Top Ten Books for Parish Ministry:
·
Adopted:
The Sacrament of Belonging in a Fractured World by
Kelley Nikondeha (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)
· Bearing
the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by
Joanne Cacciatore (Wisdom Publications)
·
Better:
Waking Up to Who We Could Be by Melvin Bray (Chalice Press)
·
Beyond
the Offering Place: A Holistic Approach to Stewardship edited
by Adam J. Copeland (Westminster John Knox Press)
·
Christian
Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the
Second through Fifth Centuries by
Lynn Cohick and Amy Brown Hughes (Baker Academic)
·
Faith
Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church’s Obsession with
Youthfulness by Andrew Root (Baker Academic)
·
Fierce:
Women of the Bible and their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex,
and Salvation by Alice Connor (Fortress
Press)
·
Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with
a Loving God after Experiencing a Hurtful Church by Carol Howard Merritt
(Harper One)
·
The
Minister as Moral Theologian: Ethical Dimensions of Pastoral Leadership by
Sondra Wheeler (Baker Academic)
·
The
Self-Aware Leader: Discovering Your Blind Spots to Reach Your Ministry
Potential by Terry Linehart (InterVarsity Press)
Top
Five Reference Books for Parish Ministry
·
The
Annotated Luther: The Interpretation of Scripture edited
by Euan Cameron (Fortress Press)
·
Barth
in Conversation: Volume 1, 1959-1962 by Karl Barth, Eberhard Busch, editor (Westminster
John Knox Press)
·
In
the Beauty of Holiness: Art and the Bible in Western Culture by David
Lyle Jeffrey (Wm. B Eerdmans Publishing Company)
·
The
Letter to Philemon: The New International Commentary on the New Testament by
Scot McKnight (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)
·
The
Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary by
Jonathan T. Pennington (Baker
Academic)
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