Books & Culture

November/December 2012 Issue

Volume 18, Number 6

January/February 2013 Issue
September/October 2012 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

American Science Fiction

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

Reflection In October

Jeanne Murray Walker

Larger Than Life

Mark Lewis

A memoir by John Lithgow.

Solus Christianus, Nullus Christianus

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

On holiness.

Neurohormonal Wars, Part 2

Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

Old questions and dubious debates in the psychology of gender.

That Long Burning

Philip Jenkins

Revisiting John Brunner’s apocalypse.

Decolonize Your Theology

Edward J. Blum

Learning from the prophetic African American tradition.

Castle Wanted

Daniel Taylor

A sumptuous history of the English castle.

A Raisin Cake Wrapped in Cloth

Diane Glancy

Anna, a prophetess.

The Greatest Heresy?

John Haas

George Washington as civil-religious saint.

The New Quest for Christian America

P.C. Kemeny

An even-handed assessment.

Gritty Eloquence

Timothy Jones

Larry Woiwode’s measured words.

Recommended Reading

Aaron Wilkinson

Beauty in an Ugly Time

David Lyle Jeffrey

Rouault and Chagall.

No Votary of the Actual

Edward Short

Edward Burne-Jones, the last Pre-Raphaelite.

On World-Making

Joel Sheesley

George Ault and 1940s America.

Jan Gossart

James Romaine

Netherlandish devotional art on the eve of the Reformation.

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