It's a pretty good list: for good or for ill, it's hard to argue with most of the choices.
But what do you think about their #1 choice? A few questions for you, my faithful readers:
- Have any of you heard of this book?
- Has anyone ever seen this book cited as influential, much less the most influential book in the past five decades?
- Does anyone know how many copies it has sold?
Seems to me that the CT editors may have been wanting to make a point about prayer and found a book that fit the bill--it seems like a stretch to argue that this book has been the most influential in the past five decades of evangelicalism. But I'm open to being persuaded otherwise!
Update: Please note that CT has apparently updated/clarified their top choice a bit. Instead of tapping Rosalind Rinker's Learning Conversational Prayer (which no one seems to have heard of) to be the most influential book in evangelicalism over the past 50 years, it has now been replaced with her book, Prayer: Conversing with God. This volume was published in 1959 by Zondervan, and is still in print by Zondervan. It has sold quite well over the years. That's not to say I think it was the right choice, but I wanted to point out that the printed magazine and the earlier online edition had the wrong title; it's now correct (according to author intent)!
