Books & Culture

July/August 1998 Issue

Volume 4, Number 4

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May/June 1998 Issue

Television is stupid, sleazy, and violent. It rots the brain and turns little children into insatiable consumers. So why do we watch it?

Articles in this Issue

Stogie Historiography

Steven J. Keillor

The Word That Has No End

John Wilson

Theology and biblical studies in the life of the church.

Robots with Choice?

C. Stephen Evans

Listening to the Community of Saints

Roger Lundin

How Protestant interpreters of the Bible are recovering the neglected riches of tradition.

Not Infallible

Marvin R. O'Connell

Two histories of the papacy.

The Uneasy Fundamentalist

Interview by Martin Wroe

While Garrison Keillor may have doubts about the faith, he knows the church (too well).

Summa Wobegonia

Joy Alexander

Lake Wobegon confronts postmodernity.

Glory! Glory! His Truth Is Marching On

John Wolffe

Discerning the hand of Providence in American history.

No Calling Without a Caller

Interview by Michael Cromartie

Os Guinness wants to restore our sense of God-given vocations.

Denominations and Dinosaurs

John C. Ortberg, Jr.

If congregations do not adapt to a rapidly changing environment, they will become extinct.

Newton’s Laws

David Bebbington

The amazing balance of enlightened rationalism and Puritan piety in the evangelicalism of John Newton.

Two Cheers for TV

by Douglas L. LeBlanc

Television is stupid, sleazy, and violent. It rots the brain and turns little children into insatiable consumers. So why do we watch it?

Amnesiacs Anonymous

Peter T. Chattaway

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