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Art and Soul

Ralph C. Wood

A Prayer Journal by flannery o’connorfarrar, straus and giroux, 112 pages, $18 If we could accurately map heaven,” Flannery O’Connor wrote in her newly published A Prayer Journal, “some...

Orthodoxy at a Hundred

Ralph C. Wood

G. K. Chesterton’s most renowned book is a hundred years old. Orthodoxy was first published in London by John Lane Press in 1908, and it has never gone out...

Murder in the Vicarage

Ralph C. Wood

The Lighthouse by P.D. James Knopf, 352 pages, $25.95. IN HIS CELEBRATED 1948 essay on detective fiction, “The Guilty Vicarage,” W.H. Auden argued that the appeal of crime novels...

American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction

Ralph C. Wood

With the death of Sydney Ahlstrom and the retirements of Robert Handy and Martin Marty from the classroom, Mark Noll has surely become our leading teacher-historian of American Christianity....

Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production

Ralph C. Wood

In accord with much of Scripture itself, the churches of the Reformation have emphasized the ear over the eye: fides ex auditu. The conviction that faith comes less by...