Book Briefs: August 10, 1984

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Christianity Today August 10, 1984

Cover Story

Hard Questions for Robert Schuller About Sin and Self-Esteem

Interview with Kenneth S. Kantzer, David F. Wells, and V. Gilbert Beers

Sam’s Son

A Theologian Looks at Schuller

Kenneth S. Kantzer with Paul W. Fromer

Schuller Clarifies His View of Sin

Robert Schuller

Eutychus and His Kin: August 10, 1984

Schuller Clarifies His View of Sin: Four Views of Sin Are Popular Today. Which Is Right?

Robert Schuller

After-School Orphans: More and More Children Are Taking Care of Themselves While Parents Work. But at What Cost?

Dean Merrill

Can We Transcend the Nuclear Stalemate?: Our Task Is Not to Wrestle with the World on Its Own Terms, but to Transform It from Above

Stephen L. Talbott

Evangelicalism: Accommodating, or Just Adapting?

Three Summer Movies

Gop Spurns Bid for U.S. Senate by Conservative Southern Baptist

Financial Crisis Grips Oral Roberts’s Medical Complex

America’s First ‘Christian’ Bank Goes out of Business

Religious Groups Seek Protection from New Civil Rights Measure

Beth Spring

A Severe Famine Threatens to Kill Millions in Africa

Tim Stafford

A Pastor Describes Brutal Conditions in Cuban Prisons

Janelle Conaway

State Appeals Court Says Pastors Must Stand Trial for Clergy Malpractice

Lloyd Billingsley

Dorothy, My Sister-in-Love

Walter Wangerin

Refiner’s Fire: Streisand and Women’s Ordination

Stephen Wiest

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A CT magazine cover and an image of women in church.

Considering Both Sides of Church Divisions

Daniel Silliman

CT hosted debates about the charismatic movement and women’s ordination.

Three book covers on a gray background.

Review

The Forgotten Founding Father

Thomas S. Kidd

Three history books to read this month.

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The Bulletin

Birthright Citizenship, War’s Moral Hazards, and Can Literature Save Men?

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, and Russell Moore

Supreme Court considers citizenship at birth, war in Iran compels us to number our days, and the importance of reading.

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The Russell Moore Show

Jennie Allen on ‘The Lie You Don’t Know You Believe’

A bonus episode with bestselling author and friend, Jennie Allen.

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The Math Behind Christ’s Care for Our Flourishing

Bruce Wydick

I was curious about how Jesus allotted his time on earth—and what Christians could learn from it.

Interwoven pieces of paper with illustrations of the body.

Communion, Sex, and God’s Created Order

Kyle Wells

Our bundled partisanship misses Scripture’s focus on the body.

A photo of Benjamin Watson at mic with the title of the podcast The Just Life overlaid on the image

The Just Life with Benjamin Watson

Dr. Eric Mason: Why Biblical Justice is Spiritual Maturity

How knowing our history aids in achieving true restoration.

Analysis

Q&A: Some Israelis See Esther’s Story in the Attacks on Iran

The Bulletin with Yossi Klein Halevi

Journalist Yossi Klein Halevi speaks to CT about Jewish reflections on the US and Israel-led war.