Books & Culture

September/October 2010 Issue

Volume 16, Number 5

November/December 2010 Issue
July/August 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

Still Reckoning

Philip Jenkins

A master historian’s summing up of World War II.

Once a Spy

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

The Good Man Philip and the Scoundrel Pullman.

Betty Smartt Carter

A parable for our times.

Go Ahead and Flinch

Joseph Bottum

A lost novel by Donald Westlake.

Lewis, Sex, and Gender

Michael Ward

Tamed by Venus.

Indonesia, Inwardly

Jane Zwart

A guide to navigating the postcolonial world.

Bright Stamps

Brett Foster

John Keats’ letters to Fanny Brawne.

The Epistolary Revolution

Lauren Winner

Letter-writing in the 18th century.

The Bully Pulpit, Revisited

Lyman A. Kellstedt, James L. Guth, Corwin E. Smidt, and John C. Green

Clergy and politics in the United States: new trends.

The Nine-Day Queen

Virginia Stem Owens

Lady Jane Grey and her sisters.

Duties and Rights

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Michael Sandel’s understanding of justice.

Ultimate Concern

Molly Worthen

What Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich had in common.

Christianity in China

David Lyle Jeffrey

An irreducible complexity.

Make It New

Timothy Larsen

The modernists’ fascination with Knossos.

“The Mysterious Nature of Nature”

Roy Anker

On the films of Terrence Malick.

Soundscapes of Our Past

Jeremy Begbie

The first millennium of singers in the Christian West.

The Holy Gaze

Iconography during the Soviet era.

Paul in Context

Interview by Natalia Marandiuc

A conversation with classicist Sarah Ruden.

Tossing Down the Gauntlet

Stephen J. Lennox

Theological interpretation of Scripture.

Anthropologists Discover the Bible

Mark Noll

Cross-cultural studies of “biblicism.”

Life in a Bubble

A southern Bible college in the 1960s.

More Light

Amy Reynolds and Catherine H. Crouch

Modest progress on science-and-religion.

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