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2025 Christianity Today Book Awards

Christianity Today announced its 2025 Book Awards in December 2025, covering books published between November 2024 and October 2025. The Book of the Year was The Reason for Church by Brad Edwards, which also won the Church and Pastoral Leadership category. Fifteen categories each named a winner and an Award of Merit, with two winners in Bible and Devotional. Other winners included Miroslav Volf's The Cost of Ambition in popular theology, Makoto Fujimura's Art Is in culture and the arts, Roseanna M. White's The Collector of Burned Books in fiction, and Leah Libresco Sargeant's The Dignity of Dependence in politics and public life. For younger readers, Hannah E. Harrison's The Good Shepherd and the Stubborn Sheep won in the Children category and Katy Morgan's The Outsider: Ruth won for young adults.

Source: official announcement

Book of the Year

Apologetics and Evangelism

Biblical Studies

Bible and Devotional

Also recognized

  • Reading the Psalms as Scripture by James M. Hamilton Jr. and Matthew DamicoWinner

Children

Young Adults

  • Cover of Embergold by Rachelle NelsonCT Book Award

    Embergold

    Rachelle Nelson

    Christianity Today Book Awards Honor

Christian Living and Spiritual Formation

Church and Pastoral Leadership

Culture, Poetry, and the Arts

Fiction

History and Biography

Marriage, Family, and Singleness

Missions and the Global Church

Politics and Public Life

Also recognized

  • The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto by Leah Libresco SargeantWinner

Theology (Academic)

Also recognized

  • Prophet, Priest, and King: Christology in Global Perspective by Michael S. Horton, Elizabeth W. Mburu and Justin S. HolcombWinner

Theology (Popular)

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