Books & Culture

July/August 2016 Issue

Volume 22, Number 4

September/October 2016 Issue
May/June 2016 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

Choosing the Church’s Jesus.

Wesley Hill

Francis Watson on the “fourfold Gospel.”

Moss Stitch

Anne Doe-Overstreet

C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and the Great War

Stranger In A Strange Land: Joseph Loconte

Markets & Moral Myopia

Jordan J. Ballor

“There is nothing free except the Grace of God.”

A Pious Fiction

Timothy Larsen.

John Henry Newman as novelist.

Good Company

Sørina Higgins.

The practice of creative collaboration.

How to Catch an Eel

Gina Ochsner and Paula Huston

A conversation between novelists.

“The Centrifugal Experience of Knowledge”

Alan Jacobs

Education as “character-forming.”

Two Tales of the Christ

Peter T. Chattaway

“Risen” + “Hail, Caesar!”

The Knight’s Dark Night

Roy Anker

Malick, catching the soul in motion.

Theology on Fire

Daniel J. Treier

Katherine Sonderegger’s doctrine of God.

Co-Belligerents

Richard J. Mouw

Buckley, Mailer, and Herman Hoeksema.

Every Tongue Should Confess

Amy L. B. Peeler

Three commentaries on Philippians.

Treasure in Heaven

Gary Anderson

“Anyone who gives alms to the poor is lending to the Lord.”

“Letting the Bible Do Its Work”

Peter J. Thuesen

A history of the American Bible Society.

5 Ways to Write History as a Christian

Justin Taylor

From David Bebbington to David Barton.

The Historian’s Historian

Grant Wacker

On George Marsden.

Evil Emperor?

Heath W. Carter

Reagan and the US in the 1980s.

A Working-Class Gospel

Paul Emory Putz

Christianity and the labor movement in Chicago.

“Creation’s Final Law”

William T. Cavanaugh

Evolutionary violence and the Fall.

Don’t Catastrophize

Sarah Ruden

The crucifixion and resurrection changed everything.

A Vaughan Williams Elegy

Allen C. Guelzo

“Cheerful agnosticism”?

“Human, and American, and a Woman”

Rachel Marie Stone

The modest but stifled ambitions of Julia Ward Howe.

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