Christianity and Literature articles from January 2004

Christianity and Literature archives from January 2004

From the editor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... As I conclude 15 years of editorial responsibility for this journal, certain practices have become almost second nature. Among these is a synopsis, included in each winter issue, of my annual report to the Conference on Christianity and...

Flutters, feelings, and fancies: John Wesley's sentimental sermons and the spirit of the age.
January 1, 2004... The entertainingly colorful old maid Tabitha Bramble, we learn midway through Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771), "has been praying, preaching, and catechizing among the methodists." Her perhaps feigned "manifestations...

Lost but found: the "missing" poems of C.S. Lewis's Spirits in Bondage.
January 1, 2004... The status of the literary corpus of C. S. Lewis's prose has largely been resolved. While Walter Hooper's latest project, the collected letters, (1) will undoubtedly produce a number of heretofore unpublished letters, it is doubtful that any...

The Fall of the Rebel Angels (The Limbourg brothers, 1412-1416).(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... The Fall of the Rebel Angels (The Limbourg brothers, 1412-1416) Another record of disaster. God blazing like a bonfire as rows of startled angels tumble from their chairs. A girl's voice at the library: "I knew I...

The shape of things to come: toward an eschatology of literature.
January 1, 2004... Elie Wiesel, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, has characterized the twentieth century as a century in desperate need of hope. What began in a spirit of optimism brought on by economic prosperity, technological advances, peace, and good...

Traveling Too Fast to Arrive.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Traveling Too Fast to Arrive I feel distant from my wife today. She's in good company, since I also feel distant from God, And distant from myself. Harumph. After all my effort. My wife is on the other side ...

Communion, community, and our common book: or, can Faustus be saved?(Special Feature)
January 1, 2004... Some of you will know that my family was in the cattle and horse business. As a teenager I was strongly inclined to continue in that same direction. One late spring day I was putting out hay to the young cattle when my father came suddenly...

By-laws of the Conference on Christianity and Literature.
January 1, 2004... [At its annual business meeting held on 29 December 2003 during the MLA Annual Convention, the CCL Board of Directors approved two minor amendments to the organization's By-Laws, which previously were published in the Winter 1996 issue of...

Holy Writ as Oral Lit: the Bible as Folklore.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore. By Alan Dundes. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. ISBN 0-8476-9198-5. Pp. vii + 129. $15.95 (paper). Imaging the Early Medieval Bible. Edited by John Williams. University Park: Pennsylvania...

Aspects of Subjectivity: Society and Individuality from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare and Milton.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Aspects of Subjectivity: Society and Individuality from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare and Milton. By Anthony Low. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8207-0337-0. Pp. xxi + 242. $60.00. If academic literary criticism has a...

Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship. By Ann W. Astell. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. ISBN 0-268-03259-9 (cloth), 0-268-03260-2 (paper). Pp. xvi + 283. $55.00 (cloth), $25.00 (paper). Although Joan of Arc was not...

James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and the Crisis in Black Holiness Culture.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and the Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. By Clarence E. Hardy, III. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. ISBN 1-57233-230-1. Pp. xvi + 147. $30.00. In his "Afterword" to James Baldwin's God: Sex,...

How You Return.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... How You Return For this very reason I carved you out Of mud molecules clenched in my cosmic Fists and pressed my firm thumbs in the moist clay Of your head to place your now-fading gaze That searches for my face and...

Annual CCL awards luncheon.(News And Announcements)(Conference on Christianity and Literature)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... At the CCL luncheon held on 29 December 2003 at Rainwater's Restaurant during the MLA Annual Convention in San Diego, Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner (Wheaton College) as president welcomed the approximately sixty guests and introduced members of the...

Lifetime Achievement Award.(News And Announcements)(Conference on Christianity and Literature gives award to David Lyle Jeffrey)
January 1, 2004... In the last paragraph of his fine study, People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture, David Lyle Jeffrey writes that "the purpose of the Word itself has always been transparent: to minister peace by revealing as much of the...

"The Death of Satan (and Other Casual Reflections)".(News And Announcements)(editor of Christianity and Literature steps down)
January 1, 2004... When earlier this month Jill Baumgaertner was preparing the program for this luncheon and inquired whether I had a title for my talk, I sensed a quizzical silence at the other end of our email connection when I proposed "The Death of Satan."...

Lionel Basney Award.(award for essays on Christianity and literature)
January 1, 2004... Francois Mauriac once asked, unforgettably, "What if [...] God had left a living, almost blinding mark of His presence in the world: the human face?" Nathan Bracher, in his winning essay on "The Cold-War Christian Humanism of Francois Mauriac,"...

Book of the Year Award.(Conference on Christianity & Literature)
January 1, 2004... This year the CCL Book Award Committee, comprised of Ann Hostetler (Goshen College), Elizabeth Morgan (Eastern Mennonite University), and Robert Siletzky (State Department in Cairo, Egypt), read a wide variety of accomplished works ranging in...

CCL regional meetings and calls for papers.(Calendar)
January 1, 2004... The CCL Midwest Regional Meeting will be held on 16-18 September 2004 at the University of Notre Dame. The conference's focus is "Names and the Unnamable: Literary Art and Spiritual Vision." Plenary speakers will include Barbara Newman...

Israel.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Israel How did you get God to come to you, dear Jacob? Try as I might to find a sign, that cloud is just a cloud. And the man approaching is simply the neighbor with the mail, though I hoped for a burly wrestler ...