has announced its 2005 Book Awards with 23 titles chosen from 327 nominated titles from 52 publishers.

The winners for each category are as follows: Apologetics/Evangelism, Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator (Zondervan); Christian Living, Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed (Paraclete Press); Biblical Studies, Edwin Yamauchi, Africa and the Bible (Baker Academic); History/Biography, Mark A. Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism(InterVarsity Press); Christianity and Culture, William A. Dembski, The Design Revolution (InterVarsity Press), Missions/Global Affairs, Irving Hexham et al., Encountering New Religious Movements (Kregel Publications); The Church/Pastoral Leadership (tie), Leonard Vander Zee, Christ, Baptism and the Lord's Supper (InterVarsity Press) and Robert Banks and Bernice M. Ledbetter, Reviewing Leadership (Baker Academic); Fiction, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Spirituality, Ruth Haley Barton, Invitation to Solitude and Silence (InterVarsity Press); Theology/Ethics, Hans Boersma, Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross (Baker Academic).

Awards of Merit went to the following: Gary R. Habermas and Micheal R. Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Christ (Kregel Publications); Michael J. McClymond, Familiar Stranger (Wm B. Eerdmans); Nancy Pearcey, Total Truth (Crossway Books & Bibles); James Ault Jr., Spirit and Flesh (Alfred A. Knopf); Carol Kent, When I Lay My Isaac Down (NavPress); Tod Bolsinger, It Takes a Church to Raise A Christian (Brazos Press); Suzanne M. Wolfe, Unveiling (Paraclete Press); Christoper Evans, The Kingdom Is Always But Coming (Wm B. Eerdmans); Donald Lewis, Christianity Reborn (Pilgrim Press); James Spiegel, How to Be Good in a World Gone Bad (Kregel Publications); Gregory Boyd, Seeing Is Believing (Baker Publishing Group); and Robert Letham, The Holy Trinity (P&R Publishing).