{"id":369,"date":"2008-04-01T07:10:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T12:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/04\/01\/four-baylor-related-books-among-christianity-todays-favorites\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T07:10:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T12:10:34","slug":"four-baylor-related-books-among-christianity-todays-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/04\/four-baylor-related-books-among-christianity-todays-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Baylor-related books among Christianity Today&#8217;s favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ct-books-march08.jpg\" alt=\"Christianity Today awardwinning books\" align=\"right\" \/>As the world&#8217;s largest Baptist university, it stands to reason that Baylor would be among the leaders in the study of religion. Recognition from outside the University &#8212; like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=49896\" target=\"_blank\">recent honors from <em>Christianity Today<\/em><\/a> &#8212; just confirms the standing of Baylor and its faculty nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><em>Christianity Today<\/em>, the nation&#8217;s leading evangelical Christian magazine, named books by three Baylor professors and one alum among the winners of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/special\/bkawards.html\" target=\"_blank\">2008 Book Awards<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Questions-All-Your-Answers-Religion\/dp\/0310273366\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1206028577&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Questions to All of Your Answers: A Journey from Folk Religion to Examined Faith<\/a>, by Truett Seminary professor Dr. Roger Olson;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Awakening-Evangelical-Christianity-Colonial\/dp\/0300118872\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1206028808&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America<\/a>, by history professor Dr. Thomas Kidd;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Discovering-God-Origins-Religions-Evolution\/dp\/0061173894\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1206028857&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief<\/a>, by Dr. Rodney Stark, co-director of the Institute for Studies of Religion; and<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faith-Halls-Power-Evangelicals-American\/dp\/0195326660\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1206977618&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite<\/a>, by Dr. D. Michael Lindsay, class of 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Drs. Olson, Kidd, Stark and Lindsay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world&#8217;s largest Baptist university, it stands to reason that Baylor would be among the leaders in the study of religion. Recognition from outside the University &#8212; like the recent honors from Christianity Today &#8212; just confirms the standing of Baylor and its faculty nationwide. Christianity Today, the nation&#8217;s leading evangelical Christian magazine, named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-faith","category-honors","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}