Take & read: Fall books

Cover Story in the Oct 16, 2013 issue

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Each Century books issue includes annotated lists of recent titles in a couple broad areas. Our fall books issue features the following "Take & read" lists:

Matthew L. Skinner on New Testament

Philip Jenkins and Grant A. Wacker on global Christianity and American religious history

Sharon G. Thornton on practical theology

This article appears in the Oct 16, 2013 issue.

Early Christianity, fragment by fragment

A new published volume of ancient papyri contains sayings, attributed to Jesus, that were previously unknown—including a dialogue with a disciple named Mary.

by Elizabeth Schrader Polczer