Book Review: Giannozzo Manetti
/New in the I Tatti series: a tract in praise of Christianity (at the expense of Jews and ancient pagans) by a towering figure of the early Renaissance.
Read MoreBook Review: The Meaning of Belief
/The gap between the religious and the "New Atheists" seems wider than ever - but have both sides failed even to understand each other? A pocket-sized new book examines some of the oldest questions of all.
Read MoreBook Review: The New Testament
/A new translation of the New Testament strips away the baroque filigree and presents the raw, jumbled voices of the original.
Read MoreBook Review: Pious Fashion
/A new book looks at the intricate world of Muslim women's clothing fashions.
Read MoreBook Review: Purpose & Desire
/A new book stares into the divide between living and non-living matter and finds the darndest things staring back.
Read MoreBook Review: Heretics & Believers
/A big, wonderfully readable new history of the sixteenth-century religious upheaval that transformed English life
Read MoreBook Review: Protestants
/A invigorating new history looks at the tumultuous 500-year history of Protestantism
Read MoreBook Review: Homo Deus
/The author of the popular-science hit Sapiens returns with a book that looks not to humanity's distant past but rather to its immediate future.
Read MoreBook Review: The Ransom of the Soul
/In his new book, Peter Brown offers a provocative and fascinating new look at the evolution of the Christian idea that you can be helped in the next life by how much moolah you fork over in this one
Read MoreBook Review: Simply Good News
/The latest book from New Testament scholar N. T. Wright presents a passionate new appraisal of the "good news " of the Christian Gospels
Read MoreBook Review: One Nation, Under Gods
/From the Puritans and their city on a hill to the Mormons to modern-day charlatans, the story of the United States is the story of competing faiths; a lively new book looks at that complicated tapestry
Read MoreBook Review: Christian Beginnings
/A new book by a legendary scholar charts the journey of early Christianity from a charismatic cult to the official religion of an empire
Read MoreBook Review: Surprised by Hope
/N.T. Wright's book of theology earns its allusion to C.S. Lewis' Surprised by Joy. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read More