Books & Culture

January/February 2015 Issue

Volume 21, Number 1

March/April 2015 Issue
November/December 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

Thinking Outside the Box

Robert Gundry

Pandora’s, that is.

Of the Devil’s Party?

Jessica Hooten Wilson

Milton and his “epic to end all epics.”

Chaucer Before His Tales

Tom Shippey

And the year that changed his course.

“I Wandered Around This Glow”

Micah Mattix

When a poem is “too clear, you see nothing.”

Alice Munro’s Overarching Tale

Linda McCullough Moore

Here is living that we recognize.

The Fear Exemption

D. L. Mayfield

Clutching at any appearance of control.

An Unacknowledged Legislator

Sarina G. Moore

Formidable Hannah More.

“Dismal Science”?

Alister Chapman

On Thomas Malthus.

Planet of the Rats

Jonathan Hiskes

Extinction in progress.

Scientism Run Amok

Sarah Ruden

The religion of calculation.

Music Therapy for Theologians

Mark Peters

Jeremy Begbie’s “essays in listening.”

Music as Story-Time

John H. McWhorter

The genius of Bernstein’s theater scores.

A Priest for a Twilight Faith

Daniel Taylor

Reading Tomáš Halík.

Praxede’s Story

Amy L. B. Peeler

A 1st-century Christian and a 9th-century church in Rome.

Dreams Become Reality

Roberta Green Ahmanson

Citizens of this world—and of the New Jerusalem.

Revivalist, Pop Idol, and Revolutionary Too?

Peter Choi

Whitefield’s place in American history.

A Sinful Saint

Justin Taylor

George Whitefield sans hagiography.

The View from the Glass Cage

Alan Jacobs

Automation and human responsibility.

The Missionary Myth

Stranger in a Strange Land: Amy Peterson

Duck and Cover

Kimberlee Conway Ireton

A curiously selective look at evangelicals and sex.

Pain and Yearning

Andrea Palpant Dilley

The story of a marriage.

Against Sentimentality

Lisa Ohlen Harris

A truth-telling memoir.

Unconventional Victoria

Malcolm Forbes

A genially revisionist biography.

Losing My Religion

Timothy Larsen

Mrs. Humphry Ward’s “Robert Elsmere.”

Watchman, What Do You See?

Mark Noll

The inner life of an 18th-century Protestant capitalist.

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