Books & Culture

May/June 2004 Issue

Volume 10, Number 3

July/August 2004 Issue
March/April 2004 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 Mosque on the Corner

by Philip Jenkins

Muslims in the United States.

The View from Somewhere

By John Stenhouse

The importance of place in scientific discovery.

Whither Pentecostal Scholarship?

By Arlene M. SÁnchez Walsh

The overlap between people with the Spirit and people with Ph.D.’s.

The Barbarians Have Come

by Paul C. Merkley

Reinhold Niebuhr’s daughter examines her fellow Christians and finds most of them wanting.

The Lord of Limit

by Alan Jacobs

Is Geoffrey Hill the greatest living English poet?

Jesus and Mama

by Sam Torode

The intercessor par excellence in country music

Jekyll and Hyde’s Hometown

Neil Dickson

The capital of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Which Enlightenment?

By Jonathon Kahn

Moses Mendelssohn and the Haskalah

<em>After Theory</em>, Theology?

By Eugene McCarraher

Pauline self-abandonment as a response to postmodern nihilism.

Tell Me Again: <em>Why</em> Do Churches Grow?

by James A. Mathisen

Looking for answers in demographics.

Food

by Eric Miller

How we’ve gone from raising crops to worrying about them.

What Would Buffy Do?

by Todd Hertz

Is it possible to call for help ironically—and really mean it?

The Nazi Seduction

by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Why do Hitler and the Nazis continue to fascinate?

‘Modern Dishes For Modern Living’

by Nathan Bierma

How Wonderbowls changed the world.

The Lonely Emancipator

by Lucas E. Morel

Lincoln’s legal prudence in ending the peculiar institution.

The Biggest Book in the World

by Laurance Wieder

In pursuit of a 130-pound photo album.

Martin Marty’s Martin Luther

by Kenneth L. Woodward

A masterful life of the Reformer.

Jesus in Beijing

by David Lyle Jeffrey

How to Unmuzzle a Threshing Ox

by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

Bridging the gender divide in the workplace.

Getting From <em>Is</em> to <em>Ought</em>

by Ric Machuga

Why there is no dichotomy between facts and values.

Food

by Eric Miller

How we’ve gone from raising crops to worrying about them.

El Espiritu Santo

By Douglas Jacobsen

Exploring Latino Pentecostalism.

Differently Disabled

By Crystal Downing

Forrest Gump without the extravagance: the ordinary life of Bill Porter.

Democratic Piety

by Lauren F. Winner

Jeffrey Stout reinvigorates the debate over religion in the public square.

David Martin: Sociologist as Servant of the Church

By John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

A faithful witness at the intersection of sociology and theology.

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