Awarded annually since 1990, the Award honors "ideas rather than lifelong or personal achievement." Thus winners are listed with the book for which they were recognized.

1990

E. P. Sanders, Jesus and Judaism (1985)

1991

John Harwood Hick, An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent (1989)

1992

Ralph Harper, On Presence: Variations and Reflections (1991)

1993

Elizabeth A. Johnson, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse (1992)

1994

Stephen L. Carter, The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion (1993)

1995

Diana L. Eck, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras (1993)

1996

no award

1997

Larry Rasmussen, Earth Community, Earth Ethics (1996)

1998

Charles Marsh, God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (1997)

1999

no award