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Rise and Walk
Suffering, prayer, and divine healing.
by Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2008
All Shall Be Well
The distinctive emphasis on healing in Christian history.
by Heather D. Curtis
May/June 2008
Five Intertestamental Beauties
Don't mess with these women.
by William Griffin
May/June 2008
Readers of the Lost Ark
Midrash from Genesis to Evan Almighty.
by Crystal Downing and Sharon Baker
May/June 2008
Reading with the Saints
The art of biblical interpretation.
by Jason Byassee
May/June 2008
Perfect
Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South.
by John G. Turner
May/June 2008
Cult of Personality
A valuable new biography of Aimee Semple McPherson
by Arlene M. Sánchez-Walsh
May/June 2008
Mustard Seed and Leaven
Reflections on Asian theology.
by Nate Jones
January/February 2008
Everything Is on Fire
Tibetan Buddhism inside out.
by John B. Buescher
January/February 2008
"Fear God. Honor the Emperor."
Church history from a German viewpoint.
by Mary Noll Venables
November/December 2007
"Nothing in My Hands I Bring"
The evangelical conversion narrative.
by John R. Tyson
November/December 2007
The "Old" Evangelicalism
You know—mysticism, the Kabbalah, alchemy, Paracelsianism.
by Catherine A. Brekus
November/December 2007
CHRISTIAN VISION PROJECT
Praise the Lord
Song, culture, divine bounty, and issues of harmonization.
by Mark Noll
November/December 2007
The Trouble with Bodies
For women especially.
by Lauren F. Winner
November/December 2007
Ambiguous Ecstasies
Visited by the Friend of Souls—or the Enemy?
by David Martin
November/December 2007
It Is Written
Literalism ad absurdum.
by Jana Riess
November/December 2007
The Joy of Texts
Sex in the Bible.
by Sam Torode
September/October 2007
The Jesus Diet
Eugene Peterson's "conversations in spiritual theology."
by Craig Mattson
September/October 2007
That Loving Feeling
A Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Henry Ward Beecher.
by Harold Fickett
July/August 2007
Re-Enchanting Emerson
by Harold K. Bush
July/August 2007
CHRISTIAN VISION PROJECT
The Patrick Paradox
by Dana L. Robert
July/August 2007
The Problem with Preexistence
Re-framing the questions.
by Stephen H. Webb
July/August 2007
Reconversion
A fresh look at faith and doubt in Victorian England
by David Hempton
July/August 2007
What Scandal? Whose Conscience?
by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
July/August 2007
CHRISTIAN VISION PROJECT
A Bigger—and Smaller—View of Mission
by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
May/June 2007
Aromatheology
Scenting salvation.
by Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2007
Anthropology's "Other"
The reformation of a scholarly discipline.
by David Martin
May/June 2007
Back to the Bible
A new Christian heartland.
by Joel Carpenter
May/June 2007
Not So Exceptional After All
American evangelicalism reassessed.
by David Bebbington
May/June 2007
Listening for God
"You pursue me with kindness."
by Evelyn Bence
May/June 2007
The Devil We Know?
Get ready for the "postsecular" university.
by Todd C. Ream
May/June 2007
Waco Revisited
The theology of the Branch Davidians.
by Richard J. Mouw
March/April 2007
They Didn't Have Email
The massive concluding volume of C. S. Lewis' Collected Letters.
by Michael Ward
March/April 2007
CHRISTIAN VISION PROJECT
Companions of Life
A supple faith.
by Philip Jenkins
March/April 2007
Not Too Simply Christian
Two approaches to apologetics.
by Catherine H. Crouch
March/April 2007
Against Tapioca Pudding
N. T. Wright's antidote for vague spirituality.
by Ric Machuga
March/April 2007
A Short Trip to The Edge
On pilgrimage to Mt. Athos.
by Scott Cairns
March/April 2007
CHRISTIAN VISION PROJECT
What Did You Go Out to See?
by Andrew Jones
January/February 2007
On Slippery Slopes, the Blogosphere, and (oh, yes) Women
The place of women in the redemptive community.
by Susan Wise Bauer
January/February 2007
The Wild West
Studying Christian spirituality.
by Bruce Hindmarsh
January/February 2007
If Death Is No Barrier
Spiritualism surveyed.
by Jason Byassee
January/February 2007
Dead Again
Mexico's Day of the Dead and the ambiguities of "tradition."
by David Martin
January/February 2007
Prayer and the Cross
Resurrection hope.
by Lauren F. Winner
January/February 2007
Naming God
How should we address him?
by Virginia Stem Owens
January/February 2007
Islam in American Protestant Thought
Precious little courtesy or understanding.
by Thomas S. Kidd
September/October 2006
Post-Mortem
Death by hardening of the categories.
by Robert H. Gundry
September/October 2006
Downward, Outward, Later
A superb new history of Christianity.
by Philip Jenkins
September/October 2006
Confucian Hermeneutics
Why commentaries are never definitive.
by Kelly James Clark
September/October 2006
In Whose Image?
The meaning of the imago Dei.
by Stephen H. Webb
July/August 2006
The Liveliest Way with Dissenters
Victorian theology revisited.
by Edward Short
July/August 2006
Sinning Boldly
Not so deadly.
by Stephen Prothero
July/August 2006
Bad Karma
Anger management.
by W. Jay Wood
July/August 2006
The Thing Which Is Not
Never tell a lie.
by Paige Hochschild
July/August 2006
The Prophet and the Evangelist
The public "conversation" of Reinhold Niebuhr and Billy Graham.
by Andrew S. Finstuen
July/August 2006
Ministry 101
Educating clergy from the ground up.
by Christian Scharen
May/June 2006
Going My Way
Barbara Brow Taylor's "memoir of faith."
by Garrett Keizer
May/June 2006
Preaching Is Hard
Always has been, always will be.
by Jason Byassee
May/June 2006
New Rules
Contemporary ministers face challenges they never anticipated.
by Richard Lischer
May/June 2006
Advice to a Pope
Ever-timely words from Bernard of Clairvaux.
by Doug Koop
May/June 2006
"To the Unknown Gods"
Pragmatism, postmodernity, and the theology of experience.
by Roger Lundin
May/June 2006
Lower Criticism
A female apostle? Impossible!
by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
May/June 2006
Messy Revelation
Why Paul would have flunked hermeneutics.
by Susan Wise Bauer
May/June 2006
The Sword of the Lord
How "otherwordly" fundamentalism became a political power.
by George Marsden
March/April 2006
Conversion and the Ecology of Faith
How does it happen?
by Phil Harrold
March/April 2006
I Feel Your Pain
But who am I, anyway?
by Daniel J. Treier
March/April 2006
Saints Rising
Is Mormonism the first new world religion since the birth of Islam?
by Gerald R. McDermott
January/February 2006
Who's That on the $50 Bill?
Placing Joseph Smith in America's story.
by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
January/February 2006
"Do Something"
Evangelicals in the age of Spurgeon and Moody.
by Timothy Larsen
November/December 2005
Revenge of the Ebionites
Does God care about what we eat?
by Stephen Webb
November/December 2005
Sin and Grace
The debate over confession in 16th-century Germany.
By Matthew Lundin
November/December 2005
Fire Consuming Fire
Poems for Yom Kippur.
By Laurance Wieder
November/December 2005
Does Prayer Change God?
Probing a fathomless mystery.
by Philip Yancey
September/October 2005
Reverse Hagiography
A new biography of Saint Augustine.
by Jason Byassee
September/October 2005
Unpalatable to Modern Sensibilities
Which Jonathan Edwards?
by Allen C. Guelzo
September/October 2005
A Mythical Jewishness
Is modernity a Jewish creation?
by Jonathon Kahn
July/August 2005
"They Leave It, But They Can't Leave It Alone"
The memoir of a disaffected Mormon.
by Robert L. Millet
July/August 2005
Means and Ends
The spiritual theology of Eugene Peterson.
by Lauren F. Winner
July/August 2005
Is the Reformation Over?
Well, if you have to ask …
by Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom
July/August 2005
No Easy Saint
Bonhoeffer and just war.
By Ragan Sutterfield
May/June 2005
Last Things
A history of the afterlife.
By Scot McKnight
May/June 2005
Dark Thoughts
Hoping that all will be saved.
By Kevin Corcoran
May/June 2005
A Most Unclubbable Man
The curious and instructive pilgrimage of Orestes Augustus Brownson.
By Timothy Larsen
May/June 2005
The News from Rhosllanerchrugog
On the exemplary fate of Nonconformity in Wales.
By David Bebbington
May/June 2005
A Theology of Sound
Attentive listening.
By Craig Mattson
May/June 2005
Tell Me the Old, Old Story—and Make It New
Apologetics for our time.
By Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2005
The More Things Change …
Historical perspectives on worship.
By Mary Noll Venables
May/June 2005
You Have the Right to Be Rich
But you have to earn it.
By Patton Dodd
May/June 2005
To Skellig Michael, Monastery in the Sky
In search of sacred places.
By Daniel Taylor
March/April 2005
Patrick Redux—Again
The Western Church's continuing romance with Celtic Christianity.
By T. M. Moore
March/April 2005
The Longest Saturday
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.
By Evelyn Bence
March/April 2005
The Orderly Product of a Disordered Mind
A biography of the maker of Cruden's Concordance.
By Timothy Larsen
March/April 2005
Whose Good Book?
Rival approaches to Scripture.
By Mark Noll
March/April 2005
Evangelicals & Catholics
The state of play.
By J. I. Packer
March/April 2005
Father Brown Fakes the Shroud
Start with a piece of glass and some white oil paint.
By N. D. Wilson
March/April 2005
How Liberal Was It?
Gladstone's religion.
By John Powell
January/February 2005
The Blood of the Lamb
Antonement: the Penal View?
Toward a trinitarian theology of atonement.
By Stephen N. Williams
January/February 2005
The Gospel According to …
… Charlie Brown, Tony Soprano, and other unlikely spiritual guides.
By Andy Crouch
January/February 2005
Anglican Angst
Save the last dance for me.
By Timothy Larsen
January/February 2005
Evangelicals and Mormons Together?
Conflict and conversation.
By James E. Bradley
November/December 2004
The Historian as Latter-Day Saint
Faith, history, and the virtues of evangelical diffidence.
By Elesha Coffman
November/December 2004
C.S. Lewis and Mother Kirk
Why Lewis was a Protestant.
By S.M. Hutchens
November/December 2004
Restore All Things in Thomas?
American Catholic intellectuals in the Progressive era.
By Eugene McCarraher
November/December 2004
The Lord Our God Is One
Three Christians trace their roots back to the Hebrew Bible—and encounter God's present-day chosen people.
By Steven Gertz
November/December 2004
Americanizing Jews—Judaizing America
350 years of Jewish life in America.
By Ronald Wells
November/December 2004
Limit Conditions
How to portray the Holocaust on stage and film.
By Jan Lüder Hagens
November/December 2004
"Does Everyone in This Room Believe in Demons?"
A sociologist's surprising encounter with fundamentalism.
By Julie Byrne
November/December 2004
Lewis the Letter-Writer
An "unconscious autobiography" in two volumes of correspondence.
By Michael Ward
September/October 2004
The Reformation Question
What does "Catholic" mean?
By Mary Noll Venables
September/October 2004
"Theology of the Body"
Pope John Paul II on the biblical foundations of marriage and sexuality.
By Laura Merzig Fabrycky
September/October 2004
Slowing Down the Runaway Forgiveness Truck
Is there such a thing as too much mercy?
by Scot McKnight
July/August 2004
An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars
Mark Noll delivers the first installment of a five-volume, multiauthor history of evangelicalism.
by David Hempton
July/August 2004
Wolterstorff's Philosophical Archaeology
Locke and Reid as our epistemological forebears.
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
July/August 2004
Divine Theater
God's "weightiness" in worship.
by Sue A. Rozeboom
July/August 2004
The Barbarians Have Come
Reinhold Niebuhr's daughter examines her fellow Christians and finds most of them wanting.
by Paul C. Merkley
May/June 2004
Whither Pentecostal Scholarship?
The overlap between "people with the Spirit" and "people with Ph.D.'s."
by Arlene M. SÁnchez Walsh
May/June 2004
El Espiritu Santo
Exploring Latino Pentecostalism.
by Douglas Jacobsen
May/June 2004
Jesus and Mama
The intercessor par excellence in country music
by Sam Torode
May/June 2004
After Theory, Theology?
Pauline self-abandonment as a response to postmodern nihilism.
By Eugene McCarraher
May/June 2004
Tell Me Again: Why Do Churches Grow?
Looking for answers in demographics.
by James A. Mathisen
May/June 2004
Martin Marty's Martin Luther
A masterful life of the Reformer.
by Kenneth L. Woodward
May/June 2004
The Mosque on the Corner
Muslims in the United States.
by Philip Jenkins
May/June 2004
The New History of Missions
The difference between "global Christianity" and "world Christianity."
by Mark Noll
March/April 2004
Did Joe DiMaggio Miss His Calling?
The cramped imagination of utilitarian ethics.
by John Schneider
March/April 2004
What Was That About the Rich Man?
Taking Jesus at his word.
by Arthur Simon
March/April 2004
Evasive Maneuvers
Can Protestant historians play by the rules of the secular academy without giving the game away?
by Bruce Kuklick
March/April 2004
Catholic + American = ?
How a communal body made its peace with liberal democracy.
by Allen Guelzo
March/April 2004
"Salvation Inflation"?
A conversation with Alan Wolfe.
Interview by Michael Cromartie
March/April 2004
They're OK, We're OK
So much for being "resident aliens."
by R. Stephen Warner
March/April 2004
Kissing the Lizard
On memory and forgiveness.
by Miroslav Volf
March/April 2004
The Meaning of Christ's Suffering
by Frederica Mathewes-Green
March/April 2004
The Invention of Modern Witchcraft
A surprising genealogy of neopaganism.
by Irving Hexham
January/February 2004
The Disenchanters
It's easy to laud magic when you don't believe in it.
by Agnieszka Tennant
January/February 2004
The Eighth Day of Creation
From a Russian Orthodox philosopher, a provocative alternative to modernity.
by Miroslav Volf
January/February 2004
The Forgotten Pope of Presbyterianism
Charles Hodge, once a towering figure in American theology.
by Paul Gutjahr
January/February 2004
Evangelicals: Fragmented and Thriving
The history and future of evangelicalism as a movement.
by Mark Galli
January/February 2004
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
The Anglican question.
by Timothy Larsen
January/February 2004
"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
by Grayson Carter
January/February 2004
Scandalous
The enigmatic "folly" of the Cross.
by Bruce Ellis Benson
January/February 2004
Singing the Lord's Song
Travels in sacred music, from Eureka Springs to Salt Lake City.
by Mark Noll
January/February 2004
Behold the Man
American Jesus
by Philip Jenkins
January/February 2004
Jesus and the Religions
A new paradigm for Christian engagement?
by Gerald R. McDermott
January/February 2004
How the Counterculture Went to Church
An unexplored legacy of the Sixties.
by Alan Wolfe
November/December 2003
First Things First
Teaching about worship by asking the right questions.
Ron Rienstra
November/December 2003
Wise Beginnings, Surprising Endings
Genesis: the rest of the story.
Walter Brueggemann
November/December 2003
How Nietzsche Found Jesus
Was the antichrist really religious?
Stephen N. Williams
November/December 2003
What Heresy?
The things Neo-Gnostic seekers find lacking in Christianity—experiential insight, mysticism, a direct link to God—are already there.
by Frederica Mathewes-Green
November/December 2003
Whose Natural Theology?
Stanley Hauerwas—and Karl Barth—make their peace with an embattled doctrine.
by Alan Jacobs
November/December 2003
A Plentiful Harvest
The new Edwards.
by Douglas Sweeney
November/December 2003
Revival Reconsidered
Two views of Wesley.
by David Bebbington
November/December 2003
"Be Always Ready"
Wesley's Journals and Diaries.
by Mark Noll
November/December 2003
Reading Trees
Branching out to learn lessons from nature
by Douglas Jones
September/October 2003
Taking C. S. Lewis Seriously
Apologetics and the personal heresy.
by Victor Reppert
September/October 2003
God Hidden & Wholly Revealed
Karl Barth, postmodernity, and evangelical theology.
by John R. Franke
September/October 2003
Skating on Thin Ice
The precarious life and hard times of religion in the university.
by Douglas A. Sweeney
September/October 2003
The Catholic Crisis
How did the Church get to this place, and where is it headed?
by Philip Jenkins
September/October 2003
Good for the Soul
Remembering how to confess.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
September/October 2003
Road-Test
On tour with two guides to contemporary worship.
Andrew Jones
September/October 2003
How Should a Church Look?
When structures speak for the soul.
William Westfall
September/October 2003
A Discerning Spirit
Making good choices in an era of liturgical change.
John D. Witvliet
September/October 2003
Let's Dance
Worship for a thousand tongues to sing.
Bryan D. Spinks
September/October 2003
Reformed, Reforming
The history and future of Reformed worship.
Michael S. Horton
September/October 2003
Hearing Voices
How can you tell a prophet from a fruitcake? (Hint: If you're instructed to murder someone, be skeptical.)
Tim Stafford
September/October 2003
Lonesome Blues
The consolations of frontier religion.
Barry Hankins
September/October 2003
Defenders of the Faith
Looking for fissures in establishment atheist philosophy.
Douglas Groothuis
July/August 2003
Before Left Behind
It's not easy to say something new about the end of the world.
Crawford Gribben
May/June 2003
The Holy Ghost School
Four Catholic writers and their shared vocation.
Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2003
Papists!
Saving Catholicism from scorn and irrelevance.
Kenneth Tanner
May/June 2003
The Church with the Soul of a Nation
The tension between Catholic identity and national ideals.
D.G. Hart
May/June 2003
Godless Europe?
Questioning Europe's devout past and secular present.
by Philip Jenkins
May/June 2003
Finding God's Will, or Hearing God's Voice?
Rejecting formulas to find guidance.
by Richard P. Hansen
May/June 2003
Between Malachi and Matthew
Evangelicals and the Apocrypha.
By Ken Stewart
May/June 2003
The Young and the Restless
The next generation rediscovers orthodoxy.
by Laura Merzig Fabrycky
May/June 2003
In Jonathan Edwards' Shadow
Rescuing Nathaniel Taylor.
by Bruce Kuklick
May/June 2003
The American Schleiermacher
What should we make of Horace Bushnell?
by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe
May/June 2003
"Everywhere, Always, and by All"
Scripture and tradition, revisited.
by Roger E. Olson
May/June 2003
Desperately Wicked
Reckoning with evil.
by Alan Wolfe
March/April 2003
The Disappearance of Punishment
Metaphors, models, and the meaning of the atonement.
by Hans Boersma
March/April 2003
The Pull
Two lives drawn to God.
by Betty Carter
March/April 2003
The Shocking Truth About John Wesley
A visit to the cradle of Methodism.
by John D. Spalding
March/April 2003
The Land
Evangelicals and Israel.
by Gerald McDermott
March/April 2003
Thursday the Rabbi Met with the Search Committee
The changing face of religious authority in America.
by Mark Oppenheimer
January/February 2003
A Vocabulary for Suffering
A conversation with Nancy and David Guthrie.
Interview by Carla Barnhill
January/February 2003
The Tao Made Flesh
Rediscovering the ancient roots of Chinese Christianity.
by David Marshall
January/February 2003
Hindu Holy Wars
The myth of the holy cow.
by Chandra Mallampalli
January/February 2003
Two Religions, Indivisible
Mark Noll's magnum opus.
by Martin E. Marty
January/February 2003
Cotton Mather, Meet Bill Clinton
Two histories of religion in America.
by Philip Jenkins
January/February 2003
The Authority of the Song
Ojibwe singers enact hope through hymns.
by Wendy Murray Zoba
November/December 2002
American Gnostic
Harold Bloom's "post Christian nation" ten years on.
by Jeremy Lott
November/December 2002
Outrageous Vision
A conversation with Donald Miller about global Pentecostalism..
Interview by Timothy Sato
November/December 2002
Is a Mustard Seed Enough?
Faith and unbelief..
by Richard P. Hansen
November/December 2002
South Pacific Christianities
A new history.
by John Stenhouse
November/December 2002
The Renaissance of Religion in Canada
"They're not dropping out. They're dropping in."
by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
November/December 2002
God Is Not Dead
November/December 2002
The Real Story of Secularization
Is Europe a special case?
by Philip Jenkins
November/December 2002
Africa: A Mission Accomplished?
Where Christianity is thriving
by David Martin
November/December 2002
In Sickness and in Health
The past and future of Christian Science.
by Jana Riess
September/October 2002
The 19th Floor
Where did the ideas that shape our world begin?
by Thomas Albert Howard
September/October 2002
Many Bibles, One Scripture
The gift of translation.
by Daniel Taylor
September/October 2002
Today's New International Version
by Michael W. Holmes
September/October 2002
The English Standard Version
by Kathleen Nielson
September/October 2002
The Message
by Ben Patterson
September/October 2002
In Praise of Paraphrase
by William Griffin
September/October 2002
What It Means to be Secular
A conversation with philosopher Charles Taylor.
Interview by Bruce Ellis Benson
July/August 2002
Catholic and Modern
How to think with the mind of Christ.
by David S. Dockery
July/August 2002
After Experience?
William James and consumer religion
by Christopher Shannon
July/August 2002
Should the Lord Tarry
The future of Christianity.
by Philip Jenkins
July/August 2002
Houses of the Interpreter
Spiritual exegesis and the retrieval of authority.
by David Lyle Jeffrey
May/June 2002
Here for Good
Religion and the new immigrants.
by Philip Jenkins
May/June 2002
Post-Evangelicalism
Last in a series of responses to Brian McLaren's book, A New Kind of Christian.
by Tony Jones
May/June 2002
Faithfully Dangerous
Christians in postmodern times.
by Brian McLaren
May/June 2002
Forgotten Christians
Believers in the Middle East and Asia Minor.
by by Virginia Stem Owens
May/June 2002
Have You Seen Jesus Lately?
Looking for Jesus in his church.
by Michael G. Maudlin
May/June 2002
Reformed or Deformed
Questions for postmodern Christians.
by Mark Dever
March/April 2002
"Rescue Those Being Led Away to Death"
The Church, the Nazis, and the Holocaust.
by David P. Gushee
March/April 2002
How to Read the Torah
A new translation and commentary.
by Peter Ochs
March/April 2002
E-mail from … Athens
The feast day of The feast day of St. Elias.
by Emily Oren
March/April 2002
Turning the World Upside Down
The coming of global Christianity.
by Mark Noll
March/April 2002
A Global Pentecost
The fastest-growing religious group?
by Philip Jenkins
March/April 2002
Jesus Through Muslim Eyes
Sayings and stories.
by Gabriel Said Reynolds
March/April 2002
Let's Get Personal
How the church can get past modernity's impersonal techniques without losing its focus.
by Andy Crouch
January/February 2002
"Not First in Words but in Flesh"
Language and truth in the Christian literary tradition.
by Stephen N. Williams
January/February 2002
All Shook Up
Inside the world of early Pentecostals.
by Edith Blumhofer
January/February 2002
The Prophet's Pulpit
A conversation with anthropologist and Catholic priest Patrick Gaffney illumines the world of Muslim believers—what they have in common, what divides them—and the varieties of Islamic preaching.
Interview by Agnieszka Tennant
January/February 2002
Stranger in a Strange Land: The Scandal of Arming America.
A prizewinning work of history doesn't stand up to examination.
by John Wilson
January/February 2002
Muhammad Through Christian Eyes
Demonic charlatan or moral exemplar? The church's mixed response to Islam's prophet.
by Gabriel Said Reynolds
January/February 2002
Let the Dead Heal Us
Recovering the pastoral motivation of CLASSical Christian theology.
by Daniel J. Treier
November/December 2001
Coming of Age in Ontario
An anthropologist bonds with a tribe called "InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.".
by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
November/December 2001
American Evangelicals: Tamed & Tolerant?
Christian Smith sets out to destroy the "myth" that evangelical Protestants are a monolithic force.
by W. Bradford Wilcox
November/December 2001
Divided We Grow
The long—awaited second edition of David Barrett's World Christian Encyclopedia.
by James Billington
November/December 2001
Who Would Have Thought?
The last century has changed the face of global Christianity.
by Mark Noll
November/December 2001
A Paleofundamentalist Manifesto for Contemporary Evangelicalism—
—especially its elites in North America.
by Robert H. Gundry
September/October 2001
Jamming with the Seraphim
Can we find models for theology in music?
by Nicholas Wolterstorff
September/October 2001
How Was Jesus God?
A new reading of the New Testament shows that the earliest Christology is also the highest.
by Stephen Fowl
September/October 2001
To the Jews First
Jewish evangelization from the heyday of dispensationalism to the rise of Messianic Judaism.
by Lauren Winner
September/October 2001
Future Perfect
A conversation with Wolfhart Pannenberg.
interview by Thomas Jay Oord
September/October 2001
Danger! Christian Ethics
Separating the moral life from its foundation.
by Stephen H. Webb
September/October 2001
Jews, Christians, and God, part 4
The Problem of Edith Stein
German Jew, Catholic nun, Holocaust victim, saint.
by Lauren F. Winner
July/August 2001
A Man for All Seasons?
Two portraits of Thomas More
The Last Medieval Man
by Daniel Taylor
May/June 2001
Confessions of a (Catholic) Fundamentalist
by David Lyle Jeffrey
May/June 2001
Englishing the Book
The rise and fall of the King James Bible.
by Mark Noll
May/June 2001
Killing Jesus All Over Again
How medieval stories about desecrating the Eucharist were used to justify the murder of Jews.
by Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2001
How Should Evangelicals Do Theology?
Stop Fretting About Sure-Footedness
by Harriet A. Harris
May/June 2001
How Should Evangelicals Do Theology?
Delete the "Post" from "Postconservative"
by Richard J. Mouw
May/June 2001
An Open Letter to Thomas C. Oden
A response to Thomas Oden's piece in the May/June issue of BC. A Web Exclusive
by Robert H. Gundry
May 9, 2001
On the Road with Christianity
A conversation with missiologist Andrew Walls.
Interview by Donald A. Yerxa
May/June 2001
Whatever Happened to Methodism?
Evangelicalism flourishes. But can it overcome the inner contradictions brought about by its success?
by David Martin
May/June 2001
Continuing the Debate over "An Evangelical Celebration"
Letters from readers. A Web Exclusive
May 2, 2001
Answering Critics of "An Evangelical Celebration"
An expanded version of the article in the May/June issue.
by Thomas C. Oden
May/June 2001
Who's Got the Center?
Critics of the "two-party model" of modern American Protestantism (fundamentalist/modernist; conservative/liberal; evangelical/mainline) claim to have found a via media. But the "center" is not innocent. It is a real place on the map, which demands that all "others" be related to it as margins to the mainstream.
by Michael S. Horton
March/April 2001
A Calm Answer
… to a critique of "The Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Evangelical Celebration."
by Thomas C. Oden
March/April 2001
On Oden's "Answer"
by Robert H. Gundry
March/April 2001
God & Mammon, Inc.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Fogel discovers that religion builds character, makes us healthier, saves the marginalized, and improves society—whether or not its claims are true.
by James D. Bratt
March/April 2001
Violence and the Atonement
Does the CLASSical Christian doctrine of the atonement promote violence?
by Richard J. Mouw
January/February 2001
Why I Didn't Endorse "The Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Evangelical Celebration"
… even though I wasn't asked to.
by Robert H. Gundry
January/February 2001
How Can You Be Croatian?
Why national identities are worth preserving.
by Miroslav Volf
January/February 2001
God of Abraham—and Saint Paul
Jews, Christians, and God, part 2.
by Lauren F. Winner
January/February 2001
Living by Law, Looking for Intimacy
What Christians can learn from the debates that divide American Jews.
by Lauren F. Winner
November/December 2000
All Things Jewish
The Jews. For Christians, the name of no other people on the face of the earth carries the resonance this does.
by David P. Gushee
November/December 2000
The Uncensored Merton
An intimate glimpse of spiritual writer Thomas Merton.
by Timothy Jones
November/December 2000
Basic Christianity-with an Oxbridge Accent
John Stott and evangelical renewal.
by Bruce Hindmarsh
September/October 2000
Traces of God
The faith of Jacques Derrida.
by Bruce Ellis Benson
September/October 2000
After the Reformation
Christianity Under the Ancien Régime 1648-1789 by W.R. Ward
by David Hempton
May/June 2000
Hallowed Ground
Mapping the geography of the sacred.
Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land edited by Benjamin Z. Kedar and R.J. Zwi Werblowsky
by David N. Livingstone
May/June 2000
Seeing the Invisible God (Part 1)
Knowing God is something like knowing other people. But it is also quite different.
by Philip Yancey
May/June 2000
Seeing the Invisible God (Part 2)
Formed by Relationships
by Philip Yancey
July/August 2000
Protest and Conversion
Is conversion more about this world than the next?
Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief by Gauri Viswanathan
by Chandra S. Mallampalli
May/June 2000
The Leather-Bound Shrine in Every Home
An American Bible: A History of the Good Book In the United States, 1770-1880 by Paul C. Gutjahr
by Peter J. Thuesen
March/April 2000
Bookshelf: The History of the Bible
"The nearly simultaneous appearance of Peter Thuesen's In Discordance with the Scriptures and Paul Gutjahr's An American Bible, which are probably the two best books ever published on the cultural meaning of the Scriptures in American history … "
by Mark Noll
March/April 2000
Sabbath and Strangers
Restoring Christian practices.
Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by Christine Pohl
by Lauren F. Winner
March/April 2000
Battles over Bibles
In Discordance With the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles Over Translating the Bible by Peter J. Thuesen
by Paul C. Gutjahr
March/April 2000
We're All Syncretists Now
Not religious, just spiritual.
Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion by Wade Clark Roof
by Mark Buchanan
January/February 2000
The Legacy of John Paul II
Why the bishop of Rome may be the most important figure in this secularist age.
Witness To Hope by George Weigel
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
January/February 2000
The People's Church
The global evangelical upsurge and its political consequences.
by David Martin
January/February 2000
The Trials of Being Agnostic
A conversation with skeptic Wendy Kaminer.
Interview by Michael Cromartie
January/February 2000
Jonathan Edwards, American Augustine
To appreciate Edwards, Christians need to go beyond seeing him as an enigmatic genius, the white whale of American Studies.
by George Marsden
November/December 1999
Overwhelmed by God
True spirituality means being swept away by God's desire for us.
The Shape of Living: Spiritual Directions for Everyday Life by David Ford
by Thomas Finger
November/December 1999
How Theology Happened
The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition and Reform by Roger Olson
by John R. Franke
November/December 1999
What God Doesn't Know
Were the biblical prophecies mere probabilities?
The God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence by John Sanders
by Stephen N. Williams
November/December 1999
The Taciturn Virgin
How a teenager's vision resisted the disenchantment of nineteenth-century France.
Lourdes: Body and Spirit In the Secular Age by Ruth Harris
by Lauren F. Winner
November/December 1999
The Mormon Story
Mormon America: The Power and the Promise by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
by Tania Rand Lyon and John Lyon
November/December 1999
Dancing the Edge of Mystery
The new homiletics celebrates pilgrimage, not propositions.
by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
November/December 1999
The Renewal of All Things
Jürgen Moltmann's journey of hope.
The Coming of God by Jürgen Moltmann
by A.J. Conyers
January/February 2000
God's Funeral
A conversation with A. N. Wilson
Interview by Karl Giberson and Donald Yerxa
September/October 1999
The Religious Origins of the Modern State
"While rumors of God's death have been greatly exaggerated in modern times, few deny that Western history has witnessed epochal changes in the social locus and function of religion … "
by Thomas Albert Howard
September/October 1999
From Drum-Bangers to Doughnut Fryers
Material culture, consumerism, and the transformation of the Salvation Army.
by Lauren F. Winner
September/October 1999
Faith & Reason: Philosophers respond to Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter, Fides et Ratio—Introduction
Does the pope watch The X-Files? Do the creators of The X-Files read papal encyclicals?
July/August 1999
Faith & Reason: Philosophers respond to Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter, Fides et Ratio—Nicholas Wolterstorff
The issuance of Fides et Ratio is an extraordinary event. That a subtle philosophical discourse should be issued by the head of a vast ecclesiastical bureaucracy!
by Nicholas Wolterstorff
July/August 1999
Faith & Reason: Philosophers respond to Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter, Fides et Ratio—Richard J. Bernstein
"I am writing this response to John Paul II's encyclical letter Fides et Ratio as a philosopher who does not believe that "the truth of Christian Revelation, found in Jesus of Nazareth" is 'the absolute truth' … "
by Richard J. Bernstein
July/August 1999
Faith & Reason: Philosophers respond to Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter, Fides et Ratio—Alvin Plantinga
"The last years have seen a remarkable series of letters and encyclicals from Pope John Paul II. The most remarkable, in my opinion, is Salvifici Doloris ("The Christian Meaning of Human Suffering") … "
by Alvin Plantinga
July/August 1999
A Piety of the Word
Why Scripture Matters: Reading the Bible In a Time of Church Conflict by John P. Burgess
by Stephen E. Fowl
July/August 1999
Irish Catholics and Protestants Together?
Adventures In Reconciliation: Twenty-Nine Catholic Testimonies edited by Paddy Monaghan and Eugene Boyle
by Ronald A. Wells
May/June 1999
Just Another Reformation
Reformations: A Radical Interpretation of Christianity and the World, 1500-2000 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Derek Wilson
by Matthew Lundin
May/June 1999
Whither Theology?
"The reflowering of evangelical intellectual life has justifiably received much comment in the past two decades. That reflowering, however, has focused largely on the disciplines of philosophy and history … "
The Remaking of Evangelical Theology by Gary Dorrien
by Rodney Clapp
May/June 1999
Pneumatologies Have Consequences
Theologians in pursuit of the Spirit.
by Stephen N. Williams
March/April 1999
The Meaning of Jesus
Six scholars explain why they study the meaning of Jesus - and why it matters.
by various scholars
March/April 1999
The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus
"In late December 1656, over the course of several days, the 38-year-old Quaker leader James Nayler was punished severely … "
by Douglas A. Sweeney
March/April 1999
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