LISLE, IL — InterVarsity Press (IVP) is pleased to announce that Credo Magazine has honored two IVP Academic titles with 2025 Credo Book Awards. The award-winning books are From Aristotle to Christ and the Revelation volume from the Reformation Commentary on Scripture series.
“The Credo Magazine Book Awards move past general categories in Christianity at large to give attention and praise to the best works in theology today,” said the Credo editors. “But not just any theology will do. In the spirit of Credo itself, these accolades go to those authors who model and advance the retrieval of classical Christianity for the sake of renewal today, and not only renewal in the academy but in the church.”
The Credo Book Award winner in the Natural Theology category is From Aristotle to Christ: How Aristotelian Thought Clarified the Christian Faith by Louis Markos. This book takes us on a vigorous and celebratory journey through the work of Plato’s greatest student, demonstrating Aristotle’s often unacknowledged influence on the Christian faith.
The Credo Book Awards judges said, “The beauty of Louis Markos’s book is the way he introduces the novice to the wisdom of Aristotle to better equip Christianity with a defense of its foundational commitments. In a secular age prone to skepticism, what student can afford not to read Markos and consider the myriad ways Aristotle can clarify what we believe and why?”
The other IVP Credo Book Awards winner was Revelation, a volume in the Reformation Commentary on Scripture series. This commentary was the top book in the Translated Work — Medieval or Reformation category. Guided by Rodney Petersen and Gerald Bray, this masterfully curated commentary guides readers through a wealth of early modern commentary on the book of Revelation, including voices across theological traditions—Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Radical, and Catholic. Much of the material—including commentaries, sermons, treatises, and confessions—appears for the first time in English, providing pastors, scholars, and students with fresh perspectives on the text.
“The book of Revelation has proven to be one of the most difficult and significant books of the Bible, but contemporary commentators do not always give attention to the long history of Reformation interpretation on the apocalypse of John,” said the Credo judges. “Gerald Bray and Rodney Petersen have done the world of hermeneutics a great favor by consolidating many of the best commentaries on Revelation by the Reformers into one volume. Not only does this volume give us insight into the 16th century understanding of history and eschatology, but this volume will help Protestants today ask in what ways their eschatology is or is not in the stream of their Protestant forebears.”
For a complete list of IVP book honors visit ivpress.com/award-winners.
Contact: Krista Clayton, kclayton@ivpress.com
