BENS HISTORY CORNER
BBB Rated: 2007 Landmarks in American History and Religion
For the second straight year this project (read Ben’s favorite books) serves the personal purposes of a PhD history student whose intellectual interests—U.S. relations with the world and modern American religion (especially that of evangelical conviction)—are shared by a whopping .03% of the general population. This year I actually got around to reading these books, unlike my 2006 list. Once again, BBB Rated marks my nominal contribution to the chattering types who happen to think about religion and history on at least a bimonthly basis.

A Secular Age
Charles Taylor (Harvard)
Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite
D. Michael Lindsay (Oxford)
Henry Kissinger and the American Century
Jeremi Suri (Harvard)
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
A.J. Jacobs (Simon & Schuster)
The Language of God: 'A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
Francis S. Collins (Free Press)
Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution, a History.
Alister McGrath (HarperOne)
Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America.
Matthew Avery Sutton (Harvard)
Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1865.
Nicholas Guyatt (Cambridge)
The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World
Miroslav Volf (Eerdmans)