Books & Culture

July/August 2012 Issue

Volume 18, Number 4

September/October 2012 Issue
May/June 2012 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

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

Fishing for the Truth

Jeffrey Overstreet

Conversations with moviemakers.

Breathing Eden’s Air

Makoto Fujimura

Kuyper on science, art, and Common Grace.

A New Apostolic Movement?

Gregory Metzger

The need for discernment.

A Rough Diamond

LaVonne Neff

A crime fiction series worth catching up with.

“What’s Your Road, Man?”

Richard Gibson

Travelers’ views of religious communities.

The Real Thing

James C. Dekker

A Canadian story of darkness and grace.

Reverse Migration

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Back to the city.

The Kingdom of Efficiency

Noah J. Toly

A vision for cities of the future.

Habits of the Heart & Mind

Jesse Covington, Maurice Lee, Sarah L. Skripsky, and Lesa Stern

Teaching and Christian practices.

Coffee with Jesus

Caleb J. D. Maskell

An anthropologist at the Vineyard.

Scored

Hanna Stephenson

Book Designer

Aaron Belz

The Bible Then

Jerry Pattengale

Assessing a revisionist account.

The Faithful Presence of Lucas Cranach

Daniel A. Siedell

A Lutheran understanding of culture and vocation.

The Reformation of the Artist

Matt Lundin

Already forgiven in Christ.

Spiritual Warfare in Guatemala

Rudy Nelson

The calling of the church.

Updating the Faith?

Alan G. Padgett

Looking for the essence of Christianity.

Recommended Reading

Laura Bramon Good

A Face in Black and Ivory

Stephanie Gehring

Julia Haslett’s Encounter with Simone Weil.

England’s Green & Pleasant Land

Brett Foster

Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem.

Tragedy Privatized

Sarah Ruden

Anne Carson’s Antigonick.

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