LFP Book Prize Submission Page

The Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts invites nominations for the 2009 Lilly Fellows Program Book Award

The biennial Lilly Fellows Program Book Award honors an original and imaginative work from any academic discipline that best exemplifies the central ideas and principles animating the Lilly Fellows Program. These include faith and learning in the Christian intellectual tradition, the vocation of teaching and scholarship, and the history, theory or practice of the university as the site of religious inquiry and culture. Mission Statement

Works under consideration should address the historical or contemporary relation of Christian intellectual life and scholarship to the practice of teaching as a Christian vocation or to the past, present, and future of higher education.

Single authored books or edited collections in any discipline, published in 2006 or 2007, or 2008, are eligible.

A Prize of $3000 will be awarded at the Lilly Fellows Program National Conference at Calvin College, October 1-4, 2009.

Please submit nominations on line or send a 100 word letter of nomination to:
Lilly Fellows Program
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN 46383

Nomination deadline is March 1, 2009

For questions regarding nomination procedures, email us at: lillyfellows.program@valpo.edu

Finalists

Winner of the Inaugural Lilly Fellows Program
Book Award

Finalists

Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation By Douglas Jacobsen, Distinguished Professor of Church History and Theology, Messiah College, and Rhonda Jacobsen, Professor of Psychology, Messiah College Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN# 0195170385 Hardcover: $35.00 http://www.oup.com/us Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society By Michael Budde, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, DePaul University, and John Wright, Professor of Theology, Point Loma Nazarene University Brazos Press, 2004 ISBN # 1587430630 Softcover: $24.99 http://www.brazospress.com

Conceiving the Christian College By Duane Litfin, President, Wheaton College William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004 ISBN#: 0802827837 Softcover: $25.00 http://www.eerdmans.com Can Hope Endure?: A Historical Case Study in Christian Higher Education James C. Kennedy, Associate Professor of History at Hope College, and Caroline J. Simon, Professor of Philosophy at Hope College William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005 ISBN#: 0802828582 Softcover: $28.00 http://www.eerdmans.com