Christianity and Literature articles from March 2008

Christianity and Literature archives from March 2008

The parable of the sower and obscurity in the prologue to Marie de France's Lais.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... The twelfth-century Anglo-Norman poet known as Marie de France is usually credited with the authorship of three works: the religious adventure St. Patrick's Purgatory, a collection of beast Fables; and what is considered her masterwork, the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's preachers of the swamp: Dred and the Jeremiad.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: they shall see the glory of the LORD, and...

Hopkins and Newman: two disagreements.(Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Henry Newman)(Essay)
March 22, 2008... Gerard Manley Hopkins rarely recorded disagreements with statements in published works of John Henry Newman. The small number of cases that are extant probably highlights his normal agreement with Newman or an inhibition toward dissenting from...

The pilgrimages of David Lodge.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... ... a tourist is half a pilgrim, if a pilgrim is half a tourist. --Turner and Turner 20 ... most of the greater pilgrimages have become seedbeds of the literature of "high culture:' --Turner and Turner 23 ...

Lo & Behold: A Psalm.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... Lo & Behold: A Psalm For Valerie On the day I called, You answered me, You increased my strength of soul.--Psalm 138:3 (NRS) Newly married and poor, we had run out of food; I woke to poverty as to a...

Nathan Scott and postmodern testimony.(SPECIAL FEATURE)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... The life and work of Nathan A. Scott, Jr., has by now been rightly memorialized by the discipline to which he contributed so much. I share with others the sense that Scott's work not only showed me the value of grace and style but also...

Homily: Variation on a Sestina.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... In July 2005, an 8-foot long beehive was removed from the rafters of Saint Mark's United Church of Christ in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Homily: Variation on a Sestina Brothers and sisters of Saint Mark's, church of honey, ...

Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley. By Ana M. Acosta. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006. ISBN 0-7546-5613-6. Pp. 207. $99.95. Let me begin by commending Ashgate for publishing books that relate...

Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama. By Heather Hill-Vasquez. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007. ISBN 0813214971. Pp. 229. $59.95. Though the title of Heather...

Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages. By Ann W. Astell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8014-4466-1. Pp. xiii + 285. $39.95. Ann Astell's Eating Beauty disarms criticism, and this may...

Dante: A Brief History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Dante: A Brief History. By Peter S. Hawkins. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. ISBN: 1405130512. Pp. 200. $54.95. Peter Hawkins's introduction to Dante is distinguished by its accessible, conversational, reader-friendly, humorous style. It is...

Shakespeare the Thinker.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Shakespeare the Thinker. By A. D. Nuttall. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN 978300119282. Pp. xi + 428. $30.00. In this new book, the late influential Shakespeare scholar A. D. Nuttall aims, ambitiously, to trace the progress of...

Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Edited by Beatrice Batson. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-932792-36-2. Pp. xvii + 178. $29.95 (paper). As its...

The Third Spring: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Third Swing: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones. By Adam Schwartz. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005. ISBN 0813213878. Pp. xv + 416. $64.95. In the mid-nineteenth...

Mere Humanity: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Mere Humanity: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition. By Donald T. Williams. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2006. ISBN 0805440186. Pp. vii + 212. $14.99. In the land of Narnia,...

Mary's House: New and Selected Poems.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Mary's House: New and Selected Poems. By David Craig. Salem, OR: Idylls Press, 2007. ISBN: 9781595970077. Pp. 250. $18.95. It is hard to find a book of poems that satisfies as a literary work and still inspires prayer. David Impastato's...

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art. By Crystal Downing. Downer's Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2006. ISBN 0830827587. Pp. 240. $18.00. In contemporary American religious circles,...

What is Given.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... What is Given As though Moses himself is standing high upon this Rocky Mountain diff poised to proclaim once again God's law, cars and SUVs pull over, line up along both sides of the national park's ...