ANZATS Book Awards

Best Monograph by an Emerging Scholar

Best Monograph by an Established Scholar

The ANZATS Book awards recognise new scholarly publications that make important contributions to the theological disciplines. The awards honour books of academic rigour, originality and creativity which are deemed by the judges to have the potential to inform significantly the way in which their respective disciplines and/or themes are understood and interpreted. The ‘theological disciplines’ are understood to include inter alia biblical studies; systematic, historical and constructive theology; ecclesiastical history; pastoral and applied theology (including ethics, liturgics, ministry studies, homiletics); comparative religious studies; and other religious studies not otherwise specified.

The ANZATS book awards are held every second year. The winner of each award will recieve $1000 and a certificate. Winners will be announced at the ANZATS Conference Dinner.

2025

Emerging Scholars Category    

Brian Kolia, Carrying Qoheleth’s Maota (House): An Australian-Samoan Diasporic Reading, SBL
Press.

Jacqueline Service, Triune Well-Being: The Kenotic-Enrichment of the Eternal Trinity, Fortress
Academic.

Catherine Lambert, Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority,
Routledge.

David Ray, Conflict and Enmity in the Asaph Psalms, Mohr Siebeck.

Established Scholars Category

Elizabeth Boase, Trauma Theories: Refractions in the Book of Jeremiah, Sheffield Phoenix
Press.

Michael Mawson, Standing Under the Cross: Essays on Bonhoeffer’s Theology, Bloomsbury
Publishing.

Mark Jennings, Happy: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic
Christianity, Palgrave Macmillan.

Previous Winners

2022

Winner Best Monograph by an Emerging Scholar 

Barbara Deutschmann, Creating Gender in the Garden: The Inconstant Partnership of Eve and Adam (T&T Clark, 2022)

Finalists           

Samuel J. Freney, Aspectual Substitution: Verbal Change in New Testament Quotations of the Septuagint (Peter Lang, 2020)

Daniel R. Patterson, Reforming a Theology of Gender: Constructive Reflections on Judith Butler and Queer Theory (Cascade, 2022)

Winner Best Monograph by an Established Scholar:

Winner           

Anne Elvey, Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics (T&T Clark 2023).

Finalists          

Doru Costache, Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations, (Brill 2021).

Dianne Rayson, Bonhoeffer and Climate Change: Theology and Ethics for the Anthropocene, (Lexington Books 2021).