Christianity and Literature articles from March 2005

Christianity and Literature archives from March 2005

Reading and faith in a global community.
March 22, 2005... In the 1960s only a few obscure American and French social scientists were talking about globalization. Today it has become one of those buzz words that everyone uses but few define. Somehow it is connected to the Internet and to the World...

A Crow in Light.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... A Crow in Light One morning in the summer rising light of the garden, I sat reading of Isaiah in the wilderness. He prophesied, as well as lions bedding with the lambs, jackals in the palace, hyenas in the square....

Swimming with my Father.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Swimming with my Father In the photograph, the Turtle Creek High School Swim Team is fixed in memory. It is 1939. My father is a boy much younger than the students who yield daily to my instruction, and I...

Evasion of the finite in Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful".
March 22, 2005... In Christ and Apollo, William F. Lynch argues that our path to insight, beauty, or God must be a narrow and direct one that leads straight through our human realities, through our labor, our disappointments, our friends, our game...

Where There Is No Shadow.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Where There Is No Shadow there is prophecy, precognition, sleight of hand, Holy Ghost. Aura before seizure, phantom pain, pause between a chord struck and the ear's hearing, a heart's leap and the lips' kiss....

Still Life with Tulips.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Still Life with Tulips Let life still, as I contemplate this spill of light and how it fills me. Let me drink spring from the chalice of your just- opened mouth, press my own two lips to one of...

The Irish Fire-Eating Nun.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... The Irish Fire-Eating Nun Sister Mary Clare stood in front of her class, tipped back her head and swallowed a flaming torch. The circus had been in town and she learned to do it because she knew then the boys would pay...

To love one thing.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... To love one thing is to be drowned, which is to say, baptized into wholeness through particularity-- even if it is only your hand curving around a thick white mug, the slanting...

Ford Madox Brown's Protestant medievalism: Chaucer and Wycliffe.
March 22, 2005... The appeal of the Middle Ages in the nineteenth century has countless manifestations and as many explanations. A simple view of Victorian medievalism as a nostalgic wish for "Merrie England" and escapism, hilariously challenged by Kingsley Amis...

Reconsidering levels of meaning.
March 22, 2005... Prefatory Note The present essay, which centers on Northrop Frye's interest in the Bible, derives from two lectures he gave in 1979, only a few years before his first book on the Bible, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature was...

The Pastor's Wife Considers Transparency.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... The Pastor's Wife Considers Transparency So. The woman who loved belly buttons abjured naval gazing, had misplaced her diary. She had so little to confess even store windows and priests stared vacantly. While she ambled by...

By-laws of the conference on Christianity and literature.
March 22, 2005... Preamble We, the members of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (herein-after called the Society), believing that distinct benefits may be derived for Christian teachers of literature and the institutions they serve, by a closer...

Wake Well.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Wake Well Cocks and clocks wake no one in Heaven. No newborn saints jolt from the tomb. For infant eyes blink open gently--Effortless, to bliss assume.

Medieval Narrative: An Introduction.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Medieval Narrative: An Introduction. By Tony Davenport. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. ISBN: 0-19-925839-2. Pp. x 4- 305. $24.95. Tony Davenport's bold attempt to summarize the enormous subject of "medieval narrative," even with all of his...

God's Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... God's Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism. By David S. Katz. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-300-10115-5. Pp. xvi + 397. $38.00. Despite the bemoaned declension in "biblical literacy,"...

John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives. Edited by Mary Arshagouni Papazian. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-81433012-6. Pp. viii + 385. $39.95. This very substantial, scrupulously edited, and...

Coleridge and Newman: The Centrality of Conscience.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Coleridge and Newman: The Centrality of Conscience. By Philip C. Rule, S. J. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8232-2315-9. Pp. x + 182. $55.00. In this superb example of painstaking scholarly exegesis, Philip Rule,...

Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity. By Lynn M. Voskuil. Charlottesville, VA and London: University of Virginia Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-81392269-0. Pp xi + 268. $35.00 Late in her chapter on the little-known...

John Gardner: Literary Outlaw.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... John Gardner: Literary Outlaw. By Barry Silesky. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2004. ISBN 1-56512-218-6. Pp. ix + 358. $24.95. At age twenty-three, torn between unemployment and applying to law school, Barry Silesky stumbled across The...

Chronicles, vol. 1.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Chronicles: Volume One. By Bob Dylan. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. ISBN 0-7432-2815-4. Pp. 293. $24.00. Nearly three hours before Bob Dylan took the stage at the Pageant Theatre in spring of 2004, the lines to get in stretched over...

Waltzing Through the Endtime.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Waltzing Through the Endtime. By David Bottoms. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. ISBN 1-55659-215-9. Pp. xiii + 61. $14.00. David Bottoms screeched onto the poetry scene in 1979 like a tomcat on a windshield, winning...

The Life of Graham Greene: 1955-1991, vol. 3.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Three: 1955-1991. By Norman Sherry. New York: Viking, 2004. ISBN 0-670-03142-9. Pp. xxxiii + 906. $39.95. Commenting on nineteenth century biographies in 1971, Graham Greene remarked that "I used to enjoy...