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Books & Culture January 1, 1998

David Bebbington Betty Smartt Carter David Downing Jean Bethke Elshtain Chris Erdman Harold Fickett Alan Jacobs Glenn Loury Habib Malik Lucas Morel Richard J. Mouw

John Newton and English Evangelicalism Houses of God C. S. Lewis and Postmodernism Everything for Sale Bosnia Why Read Fiction? Jeremiah Dylan America in Black and White The Christians of Lebanon Race, Crime, and the Law Machiavelli’s Virtue

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