Theologos Awards

The Theologos Awards are given annually by the Association of Theological Booksellers. The awards represent the unique, professional evaluations of people who sell and recommend academic religious books.

There are five categories of awards:
Best General Interest Book
Best Academic Book
Best Children’s Book
Book of the Year
Publisher of the Year

Only the bookseller members of the Association are eligible to nominate and to vote. The awards are announced at the annual Theologos Awards dinner meeting of the Association of Theological Booksellers, which is held during the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature.

The 2006 Theologos Award Winners:

Best General Interest Book 2006
Leaving Church
A Memoir of Faith
by
Barbara Brown Taylor
HarperCollins

Best Academic Book 2006
The New Faces of Christianity
Believing the Bible in the Global South
by
Philip Jenkins
Oxford University Press

Best Children's Book 2006
To Everything There Is a Season
by Jude Daly
illustrated by Jude Daly
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Book of the Year 2006
Simply Christian
Why Christianity Makes Sense
by N.T. Wright
HarperCollins

Publisher of the Year 2006
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Lisabeth Huck, Manager of the Student Book Supply, the Divinity School of Yale University is the Coordinator of the Theologos Awards.

Previous Awards:

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