Christianity and Literature back issues from March 2005:
Reading and faith in a global community.
Mar 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 Trade Organization; to the ubiquity of McDonalds ...
A Crow in Light.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> A Crow in Light One morning in the summer risinglight of the garden, I sat readingof Isaiah in the wilderness.He prophesied, as well as lionsbedding with the lambs, jackalsin the palace, hyenas in the square. As I read, a rose-breasted grosbeak ...
Swimming with my Father.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> Swimming with my Father In the photograph, the Turtle CreekHigh School Swim Teamis fixed in memory. It is 1939. My father is a boy much youngerthan the students who yield dailyto my instruction,and I have lasted to surpassthe total laps he ...
Evasion of the finite in Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful".
Mar 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 <Pre>straight through our human realities, through our labor, ourdisappointments, our friends, our game legs, our harvests, oursubjection ...
Where There Is No Shadow.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> Where There Is No Shadow there is prophecy, precognition,sleight of hand, Holy Ghost. Aurabefore seizure, phantom pain, pause between a chord struckand the ear's hearing, a heart's leapand the lips' kiss. Breath on the back of the neck, hair ...
Still Life with Tulips.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> Still Life with Tulips Let life still, as Icontemplate this spill of lightand how it fills me. Let me drink springfrom the chalice of your just-opened mouth, press my own two lipsto one of ...
The Irish Fire-Eating Nun.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> The Irish Fire-Eating Nun Sister Mary Clare stood in front of her class,tipped back her head and swalloweda flaming torch. The circus had been in townand she learned to do it because she knewthen the boys would pay closer attention. You could say ...
To love one thing.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> 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...
Ford Madox Brown's Protestant medievalism: Chaucer and Wycliffe.
Mar 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 in his academic novel Lucky Jim (1954), has ...
Reconsidering levels of meaning.
Mar 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 published (1982). Frye's interest in the Bible ...
The Pastor's Wife Considers Transparency.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> The Pastor's Wife Considers Transparency So. The woman who loved belly buttonsabjured naval gazing, had misplaced her diary.She had so little to confess even store windowsand priests stared vacantly. While she ambled bydrug dealers went on with their ...
By-laws of the conference on Christianity and literature.
Mar 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 affiliation, do organize for the ...
Wake Well.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> Wake Well Cocks and clocks wake no one in Heaven.No newborn saints jolt ...
Medieval Narrative: An Introduction.(Book Review)
Mar 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 qualifications, deserves well earned praise ...
God's Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism.(Book Review)
Mar 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," and regardless of one's view of the ...
John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives.(Book Review)
Mar 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 attractively produced volume includes thirteen ...
Coleridge and Newman: The Centrality of Conscience.(Book Review)
Mar 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, professor of English at the College of the Holy ...
Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity.(Book Review)
Mar 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 nineteenth-century London phenomena of sensation ...
John Gardner: Literary Outlaw.(Book Review)
Mar 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 Sunlight Dialogues, a novel that stirred in ...
Chronicles, vol. 1.(Book Review)
Mar 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 two blocks along Delmar Avenue here in ...
Waltzing Through the Endtime.(Book Review)
Mar 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 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of ...
The Life of Graham Greene: 1955-1991, vol. 3.(Book Review)
Mar 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 the old Victorian three-deckers. One ...