Books & Culture

November/December 2013 Issue

Volume 19, Number 6

January/February 2014 Issue
September/October 2013 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

Everything Matters

Edwidge Danticat’s new novel is a gem.

The Lantern-Bearers

Roman Britain seen afresh.

Play This Song

Beck’s countercultural “Song Reader.”

The Cult of Sweeping Competence

On suicide, smoking, and heroes of conscience.

America’s Most Consequential Battle

Allen Guelzo’s compelling chronicle of Gettysburg.

Elected Representatives

Rethinking the doctrine of election.

Are Christian Mothers Human?

Three reports from the battlefield.

A Nice Place to Leave

Good news and bad news about small towns.

Jurassic Evangelicalism

The legacy of Carl F. H. Henry.

No Apologies

How Christianity makes “emotional sense.”

Holy Power Source!

Andy Crouch on redeeming power.

Christ Our Center

Joseph Ratzinger’s witness.

His Kingdom Stretch from Shore to Shore

Church history, decidedly not parochial.

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