Christianity and Literature articles from September 2002

Christianity and Literature archives from September 2002

Mentors and proteges: spiritual evolution in Georges Bernanos' Under Satan's Sun and The Diary of a Country Priest.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... Georges Bernanos' attempt to lay bare the souls of his priest-heroes in both Under Satan's Sun (Sous le soleil de Satan) and The Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un Cure de campagne) cannot be disputed. Though ten years separate the...

On beauty, justice, and the sublime in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... In her 1999 book On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry argues afresh for the importance of beauty as an ethical, intellectual, and spiritual concern. According to Scarry, over two decades of scholarship in the humanities have left us almost...

C. S. Lewis: the Light in the Kilns.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... C. S. Lewis: The Light in the Kilns The photo prints are faded by time and use (the rumpled tweed, the frank eye, the blur of pipe smoke). Though the likenesses multiply on dust-jackets, in magazines, we see him best ...

"Unhappy all the time": Religion in Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers. (Special Feature).(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... I like Somerset Maugham's stuff tremendously [...,] but I should think he was unhappy all the time, wouldn't you? He was an unpleasant man. --P. G. Wodehouse, 1975 interview W. Somerset Maugham appears in thin disguise as Kenneth...

The Stakes.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... The Stakes A Small and Often Neglected Part Sonnet XCVII We flash through Time and hardly leave a trace. If one could somehow capture in a jar The final photon of a dying star That traveled for millennia...

"Talked to by silence": apocalyptic yearnings in Louise Gluck's The Wild Iris. (Special Feature).(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... "It is not easy, sir" he said, "to obtain a suitable place, a garden, in which one can work without interference and grow with the seasons. There can't be too many opportunities left any more." --Jerzy Kosinski, Being There...

What is reading for?(seven books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Griffiths, Paul J. Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-512577-0. Pp. xii + 210. $39.95. Illch, Ivan. In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's...

On Reading Augustine.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... On Reading Augustine (Book X of Confessions) What love I then, O Lord, when I love Thee? A kind of light makes glad a kind of eye; Soul's love is from the body taught to be. To ears within there comes a harmony...

Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By John David Dawson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN 0-520-22630-5. Pp. x + 302. $50.00. One of the great surprises for any Christian upon exploring the intricacies of Jewish textual study and halakhic observance is...

The Sin of Knowledge: Ancient Themes and Modern Variations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Theodore Ziolkowski. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-691-05065-1. Pp. xvi + 222. $29.95. The myths of Adam, Prometheus, and Faust, according to Theodore Ziolkowski, represent respectively the responses of the Hebrew,...

The Devil and Doctor Dwight: Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Colin Wells. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 08078-2715-0 (cloth), 0-8078-5383-6 (paper). Pp. viii + 254. $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). Timothy Dwight's educational and clerical roles in post-Revolutionary...

The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805 & Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805. By William A. Ulmer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. ISBN 0-7914-5153-4 (cloth), 0-7914-5154-2 (paper). Pp. xv + 228. $62.50 (cloth), $20.95 (paper). Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts. By...

The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By David P. Haney. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-271-02051-2. Pp. xviii + 309. $55.00. This challenging book is an eminently rewarding one to read. David P. Haney's grasp not only of Coleridge but also...

The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By J. Robert Barth, S.J. 2nd ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8232-2112-1 (cloth), 0-8232-2113-X (paper). Pp. xv + 176. $35.00 (doth), $20.00 (paper). When The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition...

Joyce and Hagiography: Saints Above!(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By R. J. Schork. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. ISBN 0-8130-1780-7. Pp. xvi + 239. $49.95. In his foreword Zack Bowen, general editor of the series in which it appears and himself an eminent Joycean, characterizes R. J....

The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By David C. Downing. Downers Grove (IL): Inter Varsity Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8308-2311-5. Pp. 191. $16.00. Conversion, wrote Evelyn Waugh, is like stepping "out of a Looking-Glass world, where everything is an absurd caricature, into the...

Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Peter J. Schakel. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. ISBN 0-82621407-X. Pp. xv + 214. $32.50. C. S. Lewis has become the Elvis of Evangelicals; his reputation and mystique continue to grow a generation after his death in 1963....

Jeunesse immortelle.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Julien Green. Paris: Gallimard, 1998. ISBN 2-07-0752879. Pp. 141. U.S. price not available. Julien Green (1900-1998) was a man of letters with a wide variety of interests. To his credit are novels, plays, short stories, a diary...

Rene Girard and Myth: an Introduction.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Richard J. Golsan. New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-93777-9 (paper). Pp. vii + 237. $24.95. Rene Girard has exposed with such rigor how mimetic desire has shaped all cultural practices that to discuss his work, or books about his...

A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Ron Hansen. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN 0-06-019666-1. Pp. xvii + 267. $25.00. The fourteen essays comprising this collection on faith and fiction first appeared between 1992 and 2000. While several were included in accessible...

Listening to Life: Psychology and Spirituality in the Writings of Frederick Buechner.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Victoria S. Allen. Baltimore: American Literary Press, 2002. ISBN 1-56167-726-4. Pp. xviii + 194. $14.95 (paper). Victoria S. Allen's thesis in her dissertation-turned-critical-resource focuses on the importance of psychotherapy as a...

Elementary.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Elementary "And the world was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was brooding over the surface of the waters." Earth, Water, Wind, Fire Each against the other strain ...

A Scherzo of Stars.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... A Scherzo of Stars ... in which you shine like stars in the universe In tidal pools, stars the color of pomegranates cling to the same rock to the same ledge on the cliff their chapter and verse...

CCL election results. (News And Announcements).(Conference on Christianity and Literature)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Based upon a plurality of mail ballots cast this fall, the following candidates have been elected to CCL office with terms indicated in parentheses: Midwest Director--Harold K. Bush, Jr., Saint Louis University (2003-05); Southwest...

CCL regional meetings and calls for papers. (News And Announcements).(Conference on Christianity and Literature)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... The CCL South Central Regional Meeting, hosted by Out Lady of Holy Cross College, will convene on 13-15 March 2003 in New Orleans. The conference's theme is "Faith in a Time of Terror, Scandal, and Crisis: Literary Questions and Answers." For...

Submissions for book. (News And Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Contributions are invited for a book tentatively tided The Girl of Story: Narrating Hope in Film and Literature. Inspired by discussions begun at the 2002 CCL Western Regional Meeting, the conference organizers wish to broaden the dialogue in a...

Shakespeare Institute Conference. (News And Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Members of CCL are invited to attend the Shakespeare Institute to be held at Wheaton College on 5-7 June 2003. The conference's lectures and discussion will focus on the extent to which Catholic/Protestant teachings inform the tragedies Julius...