Books & Culture

May/June 2004 Issue

Volume 10, Number 3

July/August 2004 Issue
March/April 2004 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

The View from Somewhere

The importance of place in scientific discovery.

Whither Pentecostal Scholarship?

The overlap between people with the Spirit and people with Ph.D.’s.

The Barbarians Have Come

Reinhold Niebuhr’s daughter examines her fellow Christians and finds most of them wanting.

The Lord of Limit

Is Geoffrey Hill the greatest living English poet?

Jesus and Mama

The intercessor par excellence in country music

Jekyll and Hyde’s Hometown

The capital of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Which Enlightenment?

Moses Mendelssohn and the Haskalah

<em>After Theory</em>, Theology?

Pauline self-abandonment as a response to postmodern nihilism.

Food

How we’ve gone from raising crops to worrying about them.

What Would Buffy Do?

Is it possible to call for help ironically—and really mean it?

The Nazi Seduction

Why do Hitler and the Nazis continue to fascinate?

The Lonely Emancipator

Lincoln’s legal prudence in ending the peculiar institution.

The Biggest Book in the World

In pursuit of a 130-pound photo album.

How to Unmuzzle a Threshing Ox

Bridging the gender divide in the workplace.

Getting From <em>Is</em> to <em>Ought</em>

Why there is no dichotomy between facts and values.

Food

How we’ve gone from raising crops to worrying about them.

El Espiritu Santo

Exploring Latino Pentecostalism.

Differently Disabled

Forrest Gump without the extravagance: the ordinary life of Bill Porter.

Democratic Piety

Jeffrey Stout reinvigorates the debate over religion in the public square.

David Martin: Sociologist as Servant of the Church

A faithful witness at the intersection of sociology and theology.

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