Christianity and Literature articles

Recent articles from Christianity and Literature

From the editor.(Editorial)
March 22, 2009... In this issue, we are pleased to publish four essays that focus on the relation between women, faith, and writing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, France, and America. The essays focus on poetry and fiction and explore the themes of transgression, incarnation, spirituality,...

Son of the Prodigal Speaks.(Poem)
March 22, 2009... Son of the Prodigal Speaks My mother married the rich man's Second son. She said he had traveled. He knew things other men didn't, Like the meaning of forgiveness, The cost of infidelity. I spent my childhood privileged, Happy, complaining, surrounded by...

Nativity in Black and White.(Poem)
March 22, 2009... Nativity in Black and White At St. Xenia's Wildwood skete six black-garbed nuns-- black boots, black gloves-- wend their way to prayers at dusk, in sinuous single file, downhill, through trenches shoveled in knee-deep snow. From giant pine...

Faith.(Poem)
March 22, 2009... Faith Here it is steadying the heart, taking the air, pedaling to the farmers' market for sweet grape tomatoes. In another decade those calves will be corded with muscle, pumping pure energy, taut hum and whoosh, speed and swoop,...

Therese of Lisieux and Alphonse de Lamartine: the spiritual transformation of Romanticism.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... There has been some controversy since the death of Therese of Lisieux (Therese Martin) regarding the value of her poetry. Some critics have considered it to be somewhat charming but full of the pious sentimental images typical of her day. Sackville-West, for example, declares that "It cannot...