Books & Culture

January/February 2003 Issue

Volume 9, Number 1

March/April 2003 Issue
November/December 2002 Issue

Books & Culture was a bimonthly review that engaged the contemporary world from a Christian perspective. Every issue of Books & Culture contained in-depth reviews of books that merit critical attention, as well as shorter notices of significant new titles. It was published six times a year by Christianity Today from 1995 to 2016.

Articles in this Issue

Reading Dostoevsky Religiously

Daniel J. Mahoney

In both senses of the word

Stranger in a Strange Land

John Wilson

The Death and Life of Bonnie Witherall

The Groves of Academe

When Disrespect is Respectful

When Disrespect is Respectful

Jesus the Philosopher

Douglas Groothuis

What counts as thinking?

Unprofessional Conduct

Paige Hochschild

Philosophy as a way of life

Public Intellectual

Stephen N. Williams

A conversation with Tom Morris

Resistance Movement

Nathan Bierma

Looking beneath the surface of pop culture

Beyond Bricks and Mortar?

Christopher Shannon

Rethinking the Catholic university

The Goldilocks Universe

Karl W. Giberson

Is our cosmos the whole kaboodle, or is it merely one among an infinite number of universes?

American Jihad

Daniel R. Miller

Manifest Destiny on the Loose

Hindu Holy Wars

Chandra Mallampalli

The myth of the holy cow

Two Religions, Indivisible

Martin E. Marty

Mark Noll’s magnum opus

Counting (Helping) Hands

A conversation with Ram Cnaan

I Was Thirsty . . .

Robert Wuthnow

How Congregations Serve

The Tao Made Flesh

David Marshall

Rediscovering the ancient roots of Chinese Christianity

Sacred Monsters

Jeff M. Sellers

Frida seeks to shock but ends up prettifying its subject

Born Again

Peter T. Chattaway

The Man Without a Past

Thursday the Rabbi Met with the Search Committee

Mark Oppenheimer

The changing face of religious authority in America

A Man of Appearances

Bruce Kuklick

Ben Franklin, re-appraised.

Humming Schoenberg

John H. McWhorter

Is there any there there?

Looking for Bach

John Ito

The mystery of the missing years

A Vocabulary for Suffering

Carla Barnhill

A conversation with Nancy and David Guthrie

Cotton Mather, Meet Bill Clinton

Philip Jenkins

Two histories of religion in America

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