Books

Do the Democrats Have a Prayer Yet?
Amy Sullivan explains how the Democrats alienated evangelicals and are trying to win them back.
At Origins' Margins
Michael Behe wonders how much Darwinism can really explain.
Performing Orthodoxy
The Hermeneutics of Doctrine argues that belief is as much about embodiment as affirmation.
Bookmarks
Short reviews of Soldier's Heart, Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ, and Encounters of the Spirit.
Fiction from the Headlines
The Abstinence Teacher nearly turns fundies into real people.
Heaven Is Not Our Home
The bodily resurrection is the good news of the gospel—and thus our social and political mandate.
2008 Christianity Today Book Awards
This year, 49 publishers nominated 359 titles published in 2007. CT editors selected the top books in each category, and then panels of judges — one panel per category — voted. In the end, we chose 10 winners and gave 11 awards of merit to the books that best shed light on people, events, and ideas that shape evangelical life, thought, and mission. Selections from judges' comments are below.
Starter Books on Ancient-Future Faith
Better Together?
Only in holy matrimony, not in cohabitation.
New Atheists Are Not Great
In What's So Great About Christianity, Dinesh D'Souza is skeptical of skepticism and enthusiastic about the faith.
Our Geopolitical Moment
Walter Russell Mead argues that evangelicals have a crucial role to play in American foreign affairs.
A Very Grown-up Children's Bible
The Jesus Storybook Bible is as theological as it is charming.
Out of Africa
Thomas Oden reminds us of classical Christianity's debt to Africa in How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind.
Buckley on Belief
A 1997 Books & Culture interview with William F. Buckley, Jr., who died Wednesday, February 27.
Believing in Doubt
Tim Keller says both believers and unbelievers need to confront questions about Christianity.
Don't Call Me Postconservative
Roger Olson's Reformed and Always Reforming and a new theological tug of war we'd do best to avoid.
A Painful Subject
Two agnostic authors face suffering--and come out at different spots on the faith spectrum.
Dismantling Roe
In Defending Life, philosopher Francis Beckwith argues with the sword tied behind his back.
You Have Heard It Said
Caputo's What Would Jesus Deconstruct? sends us to take another look at Jesus.
Two Testaments, One Story
Top evangelical scholars team up for landmark commentary on New Testament use of Old Testament.

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Was Paul a Slave?
Was Paul a Slave?
The surprising argument that Saul of Tarsus was born into bondage.

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