Books & Culture

September/October 2013 Issue

Volume 19, Number 5

November/December 2013 Issue
July/August 2013 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

Purgatory Is Hope

Stranger in a Strange Land: Kevin Timpe

Education and the Media

Sarah Ruden

The puppet regime.

Occupying Anarchism

Joseph Bottum

“The moral vanguard of change.”

The Real Presence of Hope & Love

Hans Boersma

The Christocentric legacy of Benedict XVI.

Mother Mary

Bruce Foltz

A 7th-century biography.

Not Real Simple

Rachel Marie Stone

The appeal of Amish romance novels.

War Work

Timothy Larsen

Margaret Mead, reassessed.

The Strange Story of Sergei Kourdakov

Katherine Jeffrey

A Cold War morality play—with a twist.

Evangelicals and Moral Ambition

Naomi Haynes

Tensions in pursuing “social justice.”

The Cell Phone Gospel

Nate Barksdale

What changes—and what doesn’t.

Civil Society and Creation Order

Gideon Strauss

Dooyeweerd’s vision.

Reconciliation, Justice, and Mercy

Miroslav Volf

An alternative to “liberal peace.”

Exploring Adoption

Jonathan Merritt

Are evangelicals doing more harm than good?

Reduced Freedoms?

Theodore Roosevelt Malloch

The European trajectory.

A Clash of Pentecosts

Robert Joustra

French Catholicism and the secular state.

Beyond Logistics

Donald A. Yerxa

Food as an instrument of modern warfare.

God’s Diplomat

Josh Jeter

Dag Hammarsjkold.

The Wonder of Malick

Roy Anker

Light does shine still.

The Princeton Tradition

P. C. Kemeny

Protestantism and higher education.

Ghosts of Princeton Past

Matthew J. Milliner

“A walled city against materialism.”

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