A bookish dinner with Rowan
Here's your chance to join Rowan Williams for dinner as one of the panel of judges selecting the winner of the the . To get your place at the table, write a 500-word review of a book first published between July 2004 and April 2006. The deadline is May 23 2006. Last year's winner of the £15,000 prize was , the Bishop of Durham (though, apparently, you don't have to be a bishop to win!). Wright won with his (massive) book The Resurrection of the Son of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God (SPCK).
They're looking for "theological" books. By which, I suspect, they mean books written by professional scholars for professional scholars. I doubt they would shortlist a novel, for example; even though, for my money, some of the most compelling theological explorations are works of fiction rather than heavily-footnoted 'academic' tomes. But please don't read that last sentence as an encouragement to propose The Da Vinci Code.
With that caveat, let's have your suggestions.
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I recommend Michael Ignatieff for his Gifford Lectures: "The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror".
Id actually put just about any book written by rowan williams on the list. pity he cant win since hes chairing the panel of judges.