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.

Francis Watson on the “fourfold Gospel.”

Markets & Moral Myopia

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

A Pious Fiction

John Henry Newman as novelist.

Good Company

The practice of creative collaboration.

Two Tales of the Christ

“Risen” + “Hail, Caesar!”

The Knight’s Dark Night

Malick, catching the soul in motion.

Theology on Fire

Katherine Sonderegger’s doctrine of God.

Co-Belligerents

Buckley, Mailer, and Herman Hoeksema.

Every Tongue Should Confess

Three commentaries on Philippians.

Treasure in Heaven

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

“Letting the Bible Do Its Work”

A history of the American Bible Society.

5 Ways to Write History as a Christian

From David Bebbington to David Barton.

Evil Emperor?

Reagan and the US in the 1980s.

A Working-Class Gospel

Christianity and the labor movement in Chicago.

“Creation’s Final Law”

Evolutionary violence and the Fall.

Don’t Catastrophize

The crucifixion and resurrection changed everything.

“Human, and American, and a Woman”

The modest but stifled ambitions of Julia Ward Howe.

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