Christianity and Literature articles from June 2008

Christianity and Literature archives from June 2008

Awakened to the holy: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" in ritualized context.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 8, 1741, the Northampton pastor Jonathan Edwards began to preach a sermon titled "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" at the second meetinghouse in the town of Enfield. Following George Whitefield's visit...

"The misrule of our dust": psychoanalysis, sacrament, and the subject in Elizabeth Jennings's poetry of incarnation.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... And she, kneeling, cooling her spirit at the water, comes nearer, nearer. Then the entire cleansing, utterly from nowhere. No wind ruffled it, no shadows slid across it. Her mind met it, her will approved. And all beyonds, backwaters, dry...

Ardors.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Ardors What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire --Stanley Kunitz As if the sin of Adam took its toll on trees, the maples stricken with the fall burn in their sins. Red passion and proud...

The church as a building and the church as a community in the work of John Betjeman.
June 22, 2008... Still they stand, the churches of England, their towers grey above billowy globes of elm trees, the red cross of St George flying over their battlements... schoolmistress at the organ, incumbent in the chancel, scattered worshippers in the...

Skylight.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Skylight For hours under a freezing hole we huddled in thin jackets, shuffled our numbed feet to Yes and early Genesis tunes on the paint-spattered CD player my brother had set down on a brown milk crate. ...

John Updike and the waning of mainline Protestantism.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... John Updike is known more for the perfection of his prose than the pacing of his plots. At least, that is an observation one might infer from his critics, who commonly complain that his stories have a surplus of style over substance--although...

Amish Hymn.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Amish Hymn If you catch its cadence in the night, in a slow and somber rain, then by Sunday morning hoof clip will have carried the rhythm further, a refrain you'll follow down a road where...

Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith. By John D. Cox. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-932792-95-9. Pp. xvii + 348. $39.95. As John D. Cox effectively argues in Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical...

Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the Future.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the Future. By Arnd Bohm. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2007. ISBN 978-1-57113-344-1. Pp. xii + 276. $75.00 In the closing pages of Goethe's Faust and European Epic, Arnd Bohm wonders what new...

The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture. By Michael Wheeler. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-521-82810-4. Pp. xv + 352. $85.00. In his preface to The Old Enemies:...

The Christian Tradition in English Literature: Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Christian Tradition in English Literature: Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose. By Paul Cavill and Heather Ward, with Matthew Baynham and Andrew Swinford, and contributions from John Flood and Roger Pooley. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007. ISBN...

Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society. Edited by Stacey Floyd-Thomas. Religion, Race, and Ethnicity Series. New York: New York University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8147-2753-0. pp. x-331. This edited volume brings contemporary...

The Genesis of Fiction: Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Genesis of Fiction: Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters. By Terry R. Wright. Hampshire and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. ISBN 0-754-61668-1. Pp. xii + 188. $99.95. Terry Wright's excellent new book, The Genesis of...

Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000. Edited by Mark Knight and Thomas Woodman. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006. ISBN: 0-7546-5117-7. Pp. 170. $89.95. Whenever I read a collection of essays that originated from an...

Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature. By Tracy Fessenden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-691-04963-7. Pp. 337. $35.00. Scholars of British literature have recently been asking...

God and Elizabeth Bishop: Meditations on Religion and Poetry.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... God and Elizabeth Bishop: Meditations on Religion and Poetry. By Cheryl Walker. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN 1-4039-6631-1. Pp. xi + 157. $49.95. Cheryl Walker's God and Elizabeth Bishop provides us with new insights into the...

John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption. By David M. Craig. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8139-2558-5. Pp. 432. $60.00. In this detailed treatment of the development of John Ruskin's critique of and...

Tarantella.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Tarantella Today cicadas strum a ballad the bees remember as they loiter, cider-drunk, among the fallen apples. It's a chorus that turns on rickety green wheels past frost-struck trees whose leaves...