Books & Culture

September/October 2011 Issue

Volume 17, Number 5

November/December 2011 Issue
July/August 2011 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

“A Capital Miracle”

Faith healing and nativism in 19th-century America.

Smithereens!

Bible-reading and “pervasive interpretive pluralism.”

Where Is Everyone?

Prospecting for extraterrestrial life.

Against Lysenkoism

The patient, cumulative work of consensus science.

The Body Beautiful

An inheritance from the Greeks.

Take It Off

Gypsy Rose Lee seen plain.

The Next Big Test

Is a new assessment agenda adrift?

Called to Response

Believers in union with Christ.

Living with the Triune God

The Christian life is relentlessly personal.

Not the Hero of His Own Story

Eugene Peterson on the pastoral life.

God and the Detectives

Religious mysteries: a perplexing case.

Nollywood Tales

Pentecostal themes in Nigerian films.

Meaning and Music

Lyrics worth listening to.

A Lesson from the Master

Jonathan Raban’s American notebook.

Letting Go

A novel in which self-realization rules.

Epitaph in a Box

Anne Carson’s elegy for her brother.

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