Christianity and Literature articles from June 2003

Christianity and Literature archives from June 2003

In memoriam: Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912-2003).(Obituary)
June 22, 2003... When the Conference on Christianity and Literature conferred its Lifetime Achievement Award on Walter J. Ong, S.J., in 1996, he wrote a letter accepting it in absentia, which was published in Christianity and Literature (46 [1996]: 105-07)....

Role-play and self-portrayal in Thomas More's A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation.
June 22, 2003... Soon after Thomas More's death his family sought to take control of his public image by writing or commissioning accounts of his life. Through those biographies they presumably hoped to dominate future as well as present views on the conflict...

Marguerite de Navarre's L'Inquisiteur: the way is simplicity itself.
June 22, 2003... Marguerite de Navarre, the older sister of King Francois I, had considerable influence upon religious matters in sixteenth-century France and often shared letters from her spiritual adviser Guillaume Briconnet, Bishop of Meaux, with her...

Prayer, Christmas Eve, for Recovery of My Dog.(Poem)
June 22, 2003... Prayer, Christmas Eve, for Recovery of My Dog O magnum mysterium shoulder me lightly like a clear river carries an autumn leaf away on a current of harmony, beyond this concrete bridge where breath and brain track...

"The whole fulness of the Godhead dwells in him bodily": the materiality of Milton's God.
June 22, 2003... It is a theological commonplace both in John Milton's day and our own to acknowledge that God is a Spirit. It is apparently self-evident that God is therefore immaterial. However, the recent intense scrutiny concerning the provenance of De...

Cosmic anthropology: race and reason in Out of the Silent Planet.
June 22, 2003... The most useful and least advanced of all human knowledge seems to me to be that of man [...]. For how can the source of inequality among men be known unless one begins by knowing men themselves? --Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the...

The unanswered question in Thomas Merton's "Fire Watch".
June 22, 2003... Many readers have regarded the "Fire Watch" epilogue to Thomas Merton's published journal The Sign of Jonas (1953) as among the most powerful and eloquent of his writings. Merton's biographer, Michael Mort, describes the "Fire Watch" narrative...

Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Edited by Sheila Delany. New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-93882-1. Pp. xi + 258. $90.00. Sheila Delany's edited collection of essays, Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings, shares the spirit of an earlier collection edited...

Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Jeffrey Knapp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-44569-0. Pp. xvi + 277. $36.00. Several recent books have placed religion at the center of consideration of early modern plays, and Jeffrey Knapp adds to such...

The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert. By Robert Whalen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8020-3659-7. Pp. xxi + 216. $45.00. The devotional poets of the seventeenth century continue to fascinate...

Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent. By Richard L. Greaves. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8047-4530-7. Pp. xxii + 693. $75.00. Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan. By...

A Longing Like Despair: Arnold's Poetry of Pessimism.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... A Longing Like Despair: Arnold's Poetry of Pessimism. By Alan Grob. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002. ISBN 0-87413-752-7. Pp. 249. $43.50. Although Matthew Arnold has been served well in recent years in criticism and biography,...

Words Alone: the Poet T. S. Eliot.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Denis Donoghue. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-300-09719-0 (paper). Pp. xiii + 326. $19.00. The recent release of Denis Donoghue's Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot in an affordable paperback edition is a welcomed event...

The Unforeseen Self in the Works of Wendell Berry.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Janet Goodrich. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8262-1367-7. Pp. xii + 167. $24.95. Wendell Berry has always been a multigenre talent, yet most of the literary criticism written about him focuses on a single genre in...

Journey of a Hundred Years.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Ida Fasel. Concord (CA): Small Poetry Press, 2002. ISBN 1-891298-13-5. Pp. 148. $15.00. This fifth full collection of Ida Fasel's poetry is distinctive for its continuous use of the cinquain, a five-line stanza consisting of two, four,...

Taken in Faith.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Helen Pinkerton. Athens: Swallow Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8040-1039-0 (cloth), 0-8040-1040-4 (paper). Pp. 129. $28.95 (cloth), $14.95 (paper). Ivor Winters, who in "To a Young Writer" urged that one "Write little; do it well" called Helen...

Judas That I Love.(Poem)
June 22, 2003... Judas That I Love Closer than any brother, friend, or lover, bosom buddy, mon semblable, my doomed body, each cell destined to fall under the siege of disease or the solvent of the grave. My father mirrors all my...

Lord, If You Will, You Can Make Me Clean.(Poem)
June 22, 2003... Lord, If You Will, You Can Make Me Clean Luke 5 Perhaps your greatest flaw, lightweight sinner, is the self-absorbed desire for perfection, the time you waste in ritual baths and fevered confessions. ...

2003 CCL Student Writing Contest.(News And Announcements)
June 22, 2003... The Conference on Christianity and Literature is pleased to recognize winners of the annual Student Writing Contest. David Wright (Wheaton College), who organized this year's competition, reports that submissions were received from 90...