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Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity by Gary Saul Morson
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In Search of the Baptism of the Imagination by Wilfred M. McClay
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How to Regard a New Term of Belittlement by J. Douglas Johnson
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Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man
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The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos
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Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus by Randall B. Smith
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The Culture War Is Between Religious Believers on Both Sides by Howard P. Kainz
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From Heavenly Harmony
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Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012
Oliver O'Donovan's Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics
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Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by Hans Boersma
The Matter at Hand
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The Last Cavalier Poet
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Points of Contact
The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church by Bradley Nassif
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35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
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Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female by Brian Patrick Mitchell
A review by Allan C. Carlson
35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
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