BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD RECIPIENTS
2020
Brian Doyle
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
Little, Brown & Company
2019
Michael Mears Bruner
A Subversive Gospel: Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
InterVarsity Press
2018
Micheal O’Siadhail
The Five Quintets
Baylor University Press
2017
David Marno
Death Be Not Proud: The Art of Holy Attention
University of Chicago Press
2016
Michael Tomko
Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien
Boomsbury Academic
2015
Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2014
John Drury
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
University of Chicago Press
2013
Sharon Kim
Literary Epiphany in the Novel, 1850-1950: Constellations of the Soul
Palgrave MacMillan
2012

Clare Costley King'oo

Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
University of Notre Dame Press

2011
Aidan Nichols

The Poet as Believer: A Theological Study of Paul Claudel

Ashgate
2010

Sarah McNamer

Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion

University of Pennsylvania Press
2009

James Kearney

The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England

University of Pennsylvania Press

2008

Jessica Brantley

Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance
in Late Medieval England

University of Chicago Press

2007

Scholarly Work:

Lori Branch

Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth

Baylor University Press
Honorable Mention
:
Christine Baur

Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation: Passages to Freedom in the Divine Comedy

University of Toronto Press
Belles Lettres:

Tania Runyan

Delicious Air

Finishing Line Press
2006

Arthur Kirsch

Auden and Christianity

Yale University Press

2005
Susannah Brietz Monta
Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England
Cambridge University Press
2004

Rod Jellema

A Slender Grace

William B. Eerdmans
2003

Paul Elie

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2002

Jeffrey Knapp

Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England

University of Chicago Press


Julia Kasdorf

The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life

Johns Hopkins Press


2001

Ramie Targoff

Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England

University of Chicago Press


2000

Velma Bourgeois Richmond

Shakespeare, Catholicism, and Romance

Continuum Press


Honorable Mention:
Peggy Rosenthal

The Poet's Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium

Oxford University Press


1999

Ruth Coates

Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author

Cambridge University Press
1998

Jaroslav Pelikan

What Has Athens to Do With Jerusalem?: Timaeus and Genesis in Counterpoint

University of Michigan Press
Honorable Mention:
Roger Lundin


Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief

William B. Eerdmans
1997

Robert M. Ryan

The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824

Cambridge University Press


1996

David Lyle Jeffrey

People of the Book: Christian Identity in Literary Culture

William B. Eerdmans


Madeleine L'Engle

Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols

Harold Shaw Publishers


1995

Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.

Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision

Continuum Publishing Company
Honorable Mention:


Denise Nowakowski Baker

Julian of Norwich, Showings: From Vision to Book

Princeton University Press
1994

David Norton

A History of the Bible as Literature, 2 volumes

Cambridge University Press


1993

David Lyle Jeffrey

The Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature

William B. Eerdmans


Frederick Buechner

The Son of Laughter

Harper and Row
1992

Ricardo J. Quinones

The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature

Princeton University Press


1991

Michael Wheeler

Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology

Cambridge University Press


1990

Harriet Guest

A Form of Sound Words: The Religious Poetry of Christopher Smart

Oxford University Press
Honorable Mention:
Leslie Brisman


The Voice of Jacob: On the Composition of Genesis

Indiana University Press
1989

John Gatta

Gracious Laughter: The Meditative Wit of Edward Taylor

University of Missouri Press


James Farl Powers

Wheat That Springeth Green

Alfred A. Knopf


1988

Michael G. Hall

The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather

Wesleyan University Press


1987

Stephen Prickett

Words and 'the Word': Language, Poetics, and Biblical Interpretation

Cambridge University Press


1986

Chana Bloch

Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible

University of California Press


1985

Michael Joseph Colacurcio

The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales

Harvard University Press


1984

Richard E. Brantley

Locke, Wesley, and the Method of English Romanticism

University Presses of Florida


1983

Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich


1982

Northrop Frye

The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich


1981

George Hunt

John Updike and the Three Great Secret Things

William B. Eerdmans


1980

James Dougherty

The Fivesquare City: The City in the Religious Imagination

University of Notre Dame Press


1979

Flannery O'Connor

The Habit of Being

Farrar, Straus and Giroux


Barbara Lewalski

Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric

Princeton University Press
