Essential books

Cover Story in the October 18, 2011 issue

Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Job and His Friends, oil on canvas, 1869.

Our fall books issue includes the following annotated lists of top titles in a few specific subject areas, selected by experts in the field:

Marti J. Steussy on the book of Job

S. Mark Heim on atonement

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

Toni Alimi and Matthew Elia each make the case that it is. Their books demand a reckoning.

One of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate us.

My in-laws took the whole family to Ken Ham’s monument to young earth creationism. What could go wrong?

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