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Evangelical Advantages
The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith Brazos, 234 pages, $22.99 How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical...
Minding the Evangelical Mind
Those of us who call ourselves “evangelical scholars” are accustomed to suspicion from the church and incredulity from the academy. Modern scholarship, many in the churches believe, has proven...
1642 and All That
The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo-America.By Kevin Philips.Basic. 651.pp. $32. Perceptive students of the 1996 presidential election have noticed an uncanny trend that...
The Innocence of Billy Graham
Just as I Am:The Autobiography of Billy Graham by billy graham harper san francisco/zondervan, 760 pages, $28.50 Several recent developments suggest that the time has come to take stock...
Selling God
In holy writ, the conjunctions between authentic faith and the worlds of commerce are strangely varied: the Hebrew Scriptures contain much in the Pentateuch on the protection and use...
Cold Dawn at the Shelter
(For Alva Steffler) Last Christmastide the angel came at six fifteen. While volunteers began to poke the guests awake, collect the mats, and fix the coffee for the breakfast...
Jonathan Edwards & the Public Square
One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards by gerald r. mcdermott pennsylvania state university press, 203 pages, $29.95 Gerald McDermott, who teaches religion at Roanoke...
Ignorant Armies
The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism by Ronald I. Numbers Knopf, 458 pages, $27.50 Ronald L. Numbers, who holds a chair in the History of Science and Medicine...
The End of Canadian History?
While the United States has been preoccupied with another Kennedy scandal, the controversies over Clarence Thomas and Mike Tyson, and the political fallout from a recession that may or...
The Lutheran Difference
To the extent that Lutherans are noticed at all by non-Lutherans in America, impressions can be wildly contradictory. From one perspective, they can look like mildly exotic ethnics—sort of...
Religion and Public Life
Under God: Religion and American Politics by Garry Wills Simon and Schuster, 445 pages, $24.95 Garry Wills is an indefatigable iconoclast, and the icons that have felt the sting...
The Fate of Republicanism
Revolt against Destiny: An Intellectual History of the United States by paul a. carter columbia university press, 331 pages, $24.95 The only thing really wrong about this thought-provoking book...
