Dallas Willard Book Award Finalists

Westmont’s Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Research Center have announced the finalists of their annual book award. The winner of the Dallas Willard Book Award – created in 2015 to highlight Willard’s intellectual legacy – will be announced in May or June. Willard was a best-selling author and beloved philosophy professor at USC. The award recognizes original work that furthers his views of reality, knowledge, and Christian spiritual formation. 

The 2026 MIDWRC Book Award finalists (in no particular order): 

– Experiencing Scripture as a Disciple of Jesus: Reading the Bible like Dallas Willard by Dave Ripper (IVP) 

– Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole and Holy Life by Grace Hamman (Zondervan) 

– A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation by Matthew Bingham (Crossway) 

– Making Disciples: Catechesis in History, Theology, and Practice by Alex Fogleman (Eerdmans) 

– From Aristotle to Christ: How Aristotelian Thought Clarified the Christian Faith by Louis Markos (IVP)