Books & Culture

May/June 2012 Issue

Volume 18, Number 3

July/August 2012 Issue
March/April 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

The Conversation

Stranger in a Strange Land: Joel Carpenter

A tribute to “The Reformed Journal.”

Don’t Eat That!

Philip Jenkins

Fear of food.

The Moral Imperative of History

Donald A. Yerxa

Lessons from World War II.

Preaching the Old Testament

Lauren F. Winner

Sermons from Fleming Rutledge.

Tuning the Preacher’s Ear

Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

How good reading helps good preaching.

Because I Say So

Douglas Wilson

Why we need authority to flourish.

Angle of Vision

David Skeel

The last testament of an exceptional legal scholar.

Hard Truths

Amy E. Black

Seeking justice for women around the world.

In the Undercity

Laura Bramon Good

Mumbai at ground level.

Critique of Pure Horse Sense

Paul A. Cantor

A philosopher makes the case for Hollywood Westerns.

Embodied Order

Susan VanZanten

A history of gardens.

Tom’s Targum

Robert Gundry

N. T. Wright’s “Kingdom New Testament.”

Saving God from “Saving God.”

Andrew Chignell and Dean Zimmerman

Is traditional supernaturalism idolatrous?

The Virgin in the City

Hannah Faith Notess

Providential Evolution

Alvin Plantinga

Not unguided.

Two Poems

Luci Shaw

My Life with John Polkinghorne

Karl W. Giberson

The faith of a physicist.

Better Than “The Da Vinci Code”

Karl-Dieter Crisman

Two glimpses of ancient science.

Making It

Jay Green

Evangelicals and intellectual authority.

Big and Little History Both

Alister Chapman

The British Empire in the 18th century.

The Sentimental Atheist

Mark Walhout

José Saramago.

A Cup of Blood

Thom Satterlee

The poetry of John Leax.

Sacred Text

Timothy Larsen

Victorian Poetry and biblical criticism.

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