Books & Culture

July/August 2010 Issue

Volume 16, Number 4

September/October 2010 Issue
May/June 2010 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

Flagstones

Laurance Wieder

This Gorgeous Game

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

Literature of the Heart

Peter A. Coclanis

The Communist Manifesto Oratorio.

When Religion and Politics Were Indivisible

Alister Chapman

No wall of separation.

Communism’s Indispensable Man

Bernice Martin

The life of Friedrich Engels.

Not So Different

James D. Bratt

America and the revolutions of 1848.

West Germany’s 9/11

Paul A. Cantor

A film about the Baader Meinhof Group.

What Are Universities For?

Jerry Pattengale

The contested terrain of moral education.

The Church on a Justice Mission

Amy L. Sherman

On the front lines of the battle against sex trafficking and forced prostitution.

Looking for Grace in All the Wrong Places

A film that mines pain’s treasures.

The Irony of Providence

Eugenio F. Biagini

A history of modern Italy.

Without End

Christopher Benson

Changing conceptions of the afterlife.

Split Mind

Alf Walgermo

The enigmatic life of Knut Hamsun.

Book Cultures

Alan Jacobs

Love of books, love of reading: not the same thing.

This Strange Ambition to Want to Say Something

Interview by Agnieszka Tennant

A conversation with Adam Zagajewski.

How Shall We Then Rest?

Karl E. Johnson

Sabbath-keeping reconsidered.

Undercover Among the Evangelicals

Susan Wise Bauer

They’re nice, but they don’t know how to think.

Real-World Christian Ethics

Roger E. Olson

A successor to Reinhold Niebuhr.

“Race Histories”

Paul Harvey

Recovering a forgotten tradition.

Theory and Practice

Bruce Kuklick

The connection between political philosophy and presidential effectiveness.

Moses and Jesus

Jane Beal

A dual biography.

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