Books & Culture

July/August 2014 Issue

Volume 20, Number 4

September/October 2014 Issue
May/June 2014 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

“Doing God”

Naomi Haynes

Christianity in the British public sphere.

Taking Philosophy to the Masses

Stranger in a Strange Land: James S. Spiegel

Fashion on the Street

Laura Turner

Honolulu style.

A Novel of the Great Awakening

Richard A. Bailey

18th-century Northampton, reanimated.

“Things Were Happening to Her”

Emily Gould’s tribute to friendship.

Bromwich’s Bracing Distinctions

Helen Andrews

A model for public intellectuals.

How It Will Be

David Skeel

Dennis O’Driscoll, taxman and poet.

Coffee with Harper Lee

Malcolm Forbes

A would-be biographer becomes a friend.

Redefining Religious Fiction

D. G. Myers

Christopher Beha and William Giraldi.

Letter to a Friend

Michael Robbins

On epistemic charity.

Theological Seitz in Paul’s Letter to the Colossians

Robert Gundry

Biblical interpretation and the “rule of faith.”

A Vast Horde of Souls

Sara Miles and “Ashes to Go.”

Divine Logic

Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Living the liturgical year.

“For Better or for Worse”

Lisa Ohlen Harris

A caregiver’s unvarnished chronicle.

Bad Connection

Naomi Schaefer Riley

The social lives of networked teens.

Born to Trouble

Hannah K. Grieser

Raising a child with Down syndome.

Three Little Bops

John H. McWhorter

The lost world of popular jazz.

Rebellious Joy

William Edgar

The life and legacy of Louis Armstrong.

Academic Divisions

Timothy Larsen

The lost history of philology.

“A Weird from Sturk to Finnic”

Alan Jacobs

Modernism and endless revision.

Making Meanings of Martyrdom

Danae Jacobson

The cult of “the North American martyrs.”

Their Blood Cries Out

Mark Noll

On violence against Christians.

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