Fall books: Take & read

Joshua Jipp, Philip Jenkins, Grant Wacker, and Mary Clark Moschella recommend the best new books in their fields.

Books

October 4, 2017

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Our fall books issue includes scholars' recommendations of the best recently published books in their fields:

Joshua Jipp on New Testament

Mary Clark Moschella on practical theology

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

The vice president’s mangling of the Christian ordo amoris is just a smokescreen for the largest deportation operation in American history.

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.

The “great American game” is played to win and to exclude. Lamar’s halftime show made the case for turning our attention to something better.