Books & Culture

In this clearly written book, T.L. Holtzen explains why the complicated debates about the doctrine of justification before and after the Reformation still matter today.

Transforming Friendship Investing in the Next Generation Lessons from John Stott and Others By John Wyatt IVP, 176 pages, $13.99 John Wyatt’s book is not only timely, but it...

Rowan Williams reflects on early Eastern monastics’ teaching about the principal interior obstacles to spiritual growth.

Salvador Dalí stated his intention of creating, with a camera’s accuracy, the dreamscape of the unconscious mind.

Samuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane introduce non-Anglican evangelicals to a solid, stately liturgy with a Reformation edge.

Christopher Webster’s presentation of important Classical achievements such as St. Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury (George Steuart, 1790-92) is novel and enlightening.

Passions of the Soul By Rowan Williams Bloomsbury Continuum, 121 + xxxiv pages, $15 At the heart of this slender volume is a series of retreat addresses...

We begin with Bede, who for Peter Ackroyd marks the beginning of English faith.

This book is a user manual to the International Version of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer published by InterVarsity Press in 2021, edited by Bray and Keane. Once that initial confusion is cleared up, the book’s intention becomes quite clear: it introduces non-Anglican evangelicals discovering liturgy for the first time to a venerable and time-tested expression of Christian worship, a solid, stately liturgy with a Reformation edge. 

Karen Stiller focuses on several words — fruit, body, money, hospitality, humility, beauty, church, remembering, and sorrow — to explain how holiness might become real in our lives.

Autism and Worship A Liturgical Theology By Armand Léon van Ommen Baylor, 263 pages, $44.99 In 2015, my wife and I were struggling to raise our two young...

The phrases “Praise and Worship” and “Contemporary Worship” have a great deal of explanatory power for understanding large swathes of the modern church.

The Meaning of Singleness: Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church By Danielle Treweek IVP Academic, 336 pages, $35 This important book by Danielle Treweek, a deacon...

If you’re on the hunt for some summer reading, my reading in the past ten years commends the remarkable niche of Anglican mystery writers....

Fratelli Tutti A Global Commentary Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Carlos Mendoza Álvarez, Ikenna Ugochuwku Okafor, and Daniel Franklin Cascade Books, 360 pages, $64 Here a set of...

Christ the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics By John Betz Emmaus Academic, 592 pages, $59.95 In this ambitious work, John Betz aims to reinvigorate the...

The Rev. Canon Pam Hyde reviews Creation Care Discipleship: Why Earthkeeping Is an Essential Christian Practice.

The Rev. Steve Rice reviews Anglo-Catholic Church Planting: Can It Work?

The Ambiguity of Being Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural By Jonathan R. Heaps Catholic University of America Press, 250 pages. $85 “For by grace you have...

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Cinema Two films about the 2015 Coptic martyrs in Libya are raising funds:...