Books & Culture

January/February 2013 Issue

Volume 19, Number 1

March/April 2013 Issue
November/December 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

The Politics of Guilt

Wilfred M. McClay

Coming to terms with past wrongs.

Encarnate

Luci Shaw

A Good Death

Stranger in a Strange Land: Rachel Marie Stone

Christian History from a Coptic Angle

Philip Jenkins

Rich, tragic, not without hope.

Fighting for a Voice

Liam Corley

American poetry and the Civil War.

The End of the End of the World

Christina Bieber Lake

Margaret Atwood completes a dystopian trilogy.

The Virtues of Dullness

Alister Chapman

Two cheers for the European Union.

A “Mean and Merciless Book”?

Nate Jones

Christianity and Asia.

The Spirit of Moral Reasoning

Matt Jenson

Oliver O’Donovan’s Pentecostal ethics.

Follow the Money

Andrew L. Wilson

Peter Brown on the making of Western Christianity.

Who’s Radical?

Jonathan Hiskes

Bill McKibben’s testimony.

Who’s in Charge Here?

John Schmalzbauer

American evangelicalism’s “crisis of authority.”

Irreducibly Embodied

Jesse Covington, Maurice Lee, Sarah Skripsky, and Lesa Stern

4 questions on “Imagining the Kingdom.”

The Other, Derrida

James K. A. Smith

Don’t smooth out the folds.

Re-Reading the Story of Cain and Abel

Steven D. Ealy

Farmer vs. shepherd.

Unexpected Refuge

Alan Jacobs

Thomas Pynchon comes home.

Statesmanship or Gamesmanship?

Amy E. Black

How the U.S. Congress works—and how it doesn’t.

In the City We Trust

Noah J. Toly

Urban dynamism, utopian dreams, and human brokenness.

Learning How to See

Makoto Fujimura

Japan’s response to disaster.

Fatherhood and Loss

Jason Byassee

Where are the good stories?

Whose Pluralism?

George Marsden

David Hollinger on liberal Protestantism.

What’s a Prayer Book for?

Douglas Wilson

A “biography” of the Book of the Common Prayer.

Look Before You Lean

Betty Smartt Carter

Advice for working women.

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