Books & Culture

November/December 2000 Issue

Volume 6, Number 6

January/February 2001 Issue
September/October 2000 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 Bones in Mr. Eliot’s Closet

Michael R. Stevens

Rediscovering the patron saint of all the flawed and haunted seekers of modernity.

Death and Texas

Virginia Stem Owens

How a self-styled “Community Conversation” turned into an anti-conversation carried on by an anti-community.

The 150% Person

Billie Davis

The marginal person who learns to adjust can help heal the conflicts between races and cultures.

In Brief: November 01, 2000

Mark Noll

Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment, The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864, Thomas Boston as Preacher of the Fourfold State, Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901-2000, Twentieth Century America: A Brief History

Living by Law, Looking for Intimacy

Lauren F. Winner

What Christians can learn from the debates that divide American Jews. This is the first installment in a five-part series.

The Universe Has a Mind of Its Own

Interview by Karl W. Giberson

A conversation with Templeton Prize-winner Freeman Dyson.

Don’t Ask the Founders

Harry S. Stout

Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America

A Terribly Undemocratic Thought

Tim Stafford

Is universal suffrage a failure?

Poetry: Why Bother?

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

Reading for “soul-culture.”

The Two Eliots

Jewel Spears Brooker

To all appearance, a biographer writes, “Eliot was conventional, mild, decorous, yet the hidden character was daring and savage.”

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