Christianity and Literature articles from September 22 2001

Christianity and Literature archives from September 22 2001

A Fellow You Should Look Up When You Get There.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... Unlike the one one tree over who could start weather the way you might start a conversation, this one never became jewelry and knew full well no priest, soldier or exultant running back would cross ...

"Written on my tainted brow": woman and the exegetical tradition in The Tragedy of Mariam.
September 22, 2001... Elizabeth Cary was the first English woman to compose and publish an original five-act play. Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam rewrites women's story not only by inscribing its author's female presence in literary history but also by challenging...

Out of and Back to Africa: James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... The Baal Shem Tov is quoted as having said that forgetting is a form of exile and that memory is a path toward return. (1) This paradigm of exile and return, so central to Jewish history and thought, is relevant to other nations, especially...

Juney Burridge.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... let my own lip sag, slip into her cold costume, and march all day through this little town whose conscience is so careful of the poor and strange, march in that loping army of the lost and carry myself beyond art and...

Honest to God and the discourse on patriarchy in mid-twentieth-century Britain.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... On 17 March 1963 the Observer ran a feature article titled "Our Image of God Must Go" that outlined the main ideas of a forthcoming book. Bishop John A. T. Robinson's Honest to God was published three days later, its first edition selling out...

Wedding Night, August 11, 1918.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... In the prairie fields, wheat and wildflowers ripen together. Even at dusk they swell, growing so far north. Last light spills around the dark green shade as she unbuttons her dress for his mouth and hands. They have...

Psychic spirituality and theological romance in Susan Howatch's Mystical Paths and The Wonder Worker.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... Susan Howatch is the author of a series of novels involving members of the clergy of the Church of England. (1) The setting is the imaginary diocese of Starbridge, based on the actual cathedral city of Salisbury, in the period from the late...

The outrageous idea of a Christian literary studies: prospects for the future and a meditation on hope. (Special Feature).
September 22, 2001... At the beginning of the second fifty years of this fine journal, perhaps it is timely to look both back and forward by way of suggesting possible directions for the future of our joint mission as scholars of Christianity and literature. It is...

Split infinitive.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... Jesus, rightful, righteous air between BC AD. Oh, awful tear that rendered your heart rent and God's heart doubly bent toward earth and us and our red clay, I see your just/ unjust display, the...

Tournier: Christian writer? a response to Susan Petit. (Dialogue).(Michel Tournier)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... I wish, first of all, to thank Susan Petit for her sensitive and intelligent response to my article on Michel Tournier. Often when one publishes an essay in a scholarly journal, it is as if there were no audience. It is invigorating and...

The Backward Glance: C. S. Lewis and Ireland. (Review essay: C. S. Lewis and the Ordering of Our Loves).
September 22, 2001... Bresland, Ronald W. The Backward Glance: C. S. Lewis and Ireland. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1999. ISBN 0-853-89746-8. Pp. 140. 8.50 [pounds sterling]. "Set your loves in order," commanded Augustine. "Love all things in God," he...

Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis. (Review essay: C. S. Lewis and the Ordering of Our Loves).
September 22, 2001... Como, James. Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis. Dallas: Spence Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-890626-01-5 (cloth), 1-890626-15-5 (paper). Pp. xiv + 248. $22.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paper). "Set your loves in order," commanded Augustine....

C. S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections. (Review essay: C. S. Lewis and the Ordering of Our Loves).
September 22, 2001... Lawlor, John. C. S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections. Dallas: Spence Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-890626-08-2. Pp. xiv + 160. $22.95. "Set your loves in order," commanded Augustine. "Love all things in God," he repeated. "Love God and do what...

Love's Sacred Order: The Four Loves Revisited. (Review essay: C. S. Lewis and the Ordering of Our Loves).
September 22, 2001... Leiva-Merikakis, Erasmo. Love's Sacred Order: The Four Loves Revisited. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8987-0791-9. Pp. 164. $12.95 (paper). "Set your loves in order," commanded Augustine. "Love all things in God," he...

Surprised by C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante: An Array of Original Discoveries. (Review essay: C. S. Lewis and the Ordering of Our Loves).
September 22, 2001... Lindskoog, Kathryn. Surprised by C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante: An Array of Original Discoveries. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-86554-728-9. Pp. 221. $35.00. "Set your loves in order," commanded Augustine. "Love...

The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis: C. S. Lewis and Don Giovanni Calabria. (Review essay: C. S. Lewis and the Ordering of Our Loves).
September 22, 2001... Moynihan, Martin, trans. and ed. The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis: C. S. Lewis and Don Giovanni Calabria. South Bend: St. Augustine's Press, 1998. ISBN 1-890318-34-5. Pp. 126. $17.95. "Set your loves in order," commanded Augustine. "Love...

Saturday Morning.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... Saturday Morning We bicker about the checkbook, then go our separate ways-- I, to read, in my rumpled flannel robe and you, to shovel a night's worth of snow. An hour later, restless with remorse, I stand at...

Adam's Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Adam's Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature. By Denis Donoghue. Erasmus Institute Books. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. ISBN 0-268-02009-4. Pp. ix + 178. $24.95. A phrase from a book review in, as I recall, the...

Milton and the Preaching Arts. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Milton and the Preaching Arts. By Jameela Lares. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8207-0318-4. Pp. xv + 352. $58.00. The most obvious virtue of Jameela Lares's book is the thoroughness of its scholarship. In regard to...

Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women. By Joycelyn Moody. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8203-2236-9. Pp. xvi + 208. $40.00. Scholars who previously had to settle for...

The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales. By G. Ronald Murphy, S.J. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-513607-1. Pp. xi + 189. $25.00. The difference between sacred...

T. S. Eliot and the Poetics of Evolution: Sub/Versions of Classicism, Culture, and Progress. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... T. S. Eliot and the Poetics of Evolution: Sub/Versions of Classicism, Culture, and Progress. By Lois A. Cuddy. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2000. ISBN 08387-5422-8. Pp. 288. $44.50. Lois A. Cuddy's study utilizes an approach to T....

The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness. Edited by David Mills. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-8028-3777-8. Pp. xviii + 297. $23.00. The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness...

C. S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... C. S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor. By Lionel Adey. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-8028-4203-8. Pp. x + 307. $22.00. The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness consists of eleven new and six...

C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse. By Don W. King. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-87338-681-7. Pp. xvii + 389. $28.00 (paper). C. S. Lewis sometimes referred to himself as a dinosaur. That is, he...

Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography. By David J. Leigh. Bronx: Fordham University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8232-1993-3 (cloth), 0-8232-1994-1 (paper). Pp. xvi + 259. $35.00 (cloth), $17.00 (paper). In his classic study titled...

John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion. By Marshall Boswell. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8262-1310-3. Pp. xi + 253. $34.95. Along with Toni Morrison's Beloved, John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom seems...

Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process. By Caterina Nella Cotrupi. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8020-4316-X (cloth), 0-8020-8141-X (paper). Pp. xii + 145. $40.00 (cloth), $14.95 (paper). With The Collected Works of...

Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts: Essays on the Thought of Walter Ong. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts: Essays on the Thought of Walter Ong. Edited by Dennis L. Weeks and Jane Hoogestraat. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1998. ISBN 1-57591-009-8. Pp. 247. $41.50. Readers of Christianity and...

Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations about the Other. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations about the Other. Edited by John C. Hawley. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8387-5449-X. Pp. 341. $44.50. This collection of fifteen alternately emboldening and disconcerting, but...

The Difficult Inch. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... The Difficult Inch. By Ida Fasel. Concord (CA): Small Poetry Press, 2000. ISBN 1-891298-06-2. Pp. 129. $15.00. The title of Ida Fasel's third volume of poems in three years, The Difficult Inch, is singularly well chosen, suggesting both the...

Tasting the Dust. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Tasting the Dust. By Jean Janzen. Intercourse (PA): Good Books, 2000. ISBN 1-56148-301-X. Pp. 69. $9.95 (paper). With this her fifth book, Jean Janzen, like the semi-truckers in her poem "August Nights," settles in for the long haul as a...

Flying Wounded. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Flying Wounded. By Susan McCaslin. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. ISBN 0-8130-1796-3 (cloth), 0-8130-1797-1 (paper). Pp. 81. $24.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paper). Susan McCaslin's sixth collection of poems is a study of wounded...

Still Life of House in Late March.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... A century old, she knows how to pose, shutters not even twitching in natural light as the artist tinkers with perception, vandalizes the stark air with voyeurism. She is naked of snow, leaves, flowers but...

Festival of faith and writing. (News And Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Calvin College's biennial Festival of Faith and Writing will be held on 1820 April 2002. Registration for the three-day conference is $140. All inquiries and correspondence should be addressed to Conference 2002, Department of English, Calvin...

Mennonite/s writing: an international conference. (News And Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Successor to the conferences Mennonite/s Writing in Canada (1990) and Mennonite/s Writing in the U.S. (1997), this symposium scheduled for 24-27 October 2002 will bring together creative writers, literary critics, and appreciative readers from...

C.S. Lewis Summer Institute. (News And Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The C. S. Lewis Summer Institute, an interdisciplinary conference that serves as a focal point of the C. S. Lewis Foundation's efforts to encourage a renaissance of Christian scholarship, will be held at Oxford University on 1420 July and at...

Promises: for S. Walters.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... Promises for S. Walters Twinkle, twinkle little star, Abram wonders what you are. Up above the world so high, shines God's promise in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle Abram's son, image of the Promised One, ...