Christianity and Literature back issues from June 2006:
Contemplation and action in Thomas Merton.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Part of Thomas Merton's influence as a spiritual writer--and he is considered be many to have been the most important spiritual writer in America in the past hundred years--stems from his recommendation of contemplation for all human beings instead of only for those in monastic orders ....
Poem Ending With a Line by Rumi.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2006; ... <Pre> Poem Ending With a Line by Rumi White-throated sparrows dart inand out of the hedgerow,their sweet long notes risingabove the thicket, the tangle of rosa multiflora,honeysuckle, and catbriar.It's late autumn, and everything diminishes. One ...
Lemon.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2006; ... <Pre> Lemon The pebbly map of its thin skin,the pith, the thick walls,the tough little seeds.It needs to be marriedto sugar, white beach sands. My mother and I are pretendingwe're at the shore, sittingon the patio of her nursing home.A ...
Inexpressible sadness: Sterne's Sermons and the moral inadequacies of politeness in Tristram Shandy.(Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, has long been established as a work of both refined sensibility and exceptional vulgarity. Since its publication, critics have remarked upon the apparent contradiction between "the 'indelicacies' of Tristram Shandy and its triumphantly ...
The VCCA Fellows Visit the Holiness Baptist Church, Amherst, Virginia.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2006; ... <Pre> The VCCA Fellows Visit the Holiness Baptist Church, Amherst, Virginia We are the only light faces in a sea of mahogany, tobacco, almond,and this is not the only way we are different. We've come in late,the choir already singing, swaying to the music, moving in the...
Voices' End.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2006; ... <Pre> Voices' End They must go through the Valley of Thorns, But they find it a place of springs. --Psalm 84 There are notes on the page for which wecannot account, the rise and fall of dactylslike the rise and fall of crimson in autumn, the stems of ...
"Dauntless faith": contemplative sublimity and social action in Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck's aesthetics.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2006; ... For though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. --Psalm 23:4 (KJV) Valour in women is so sublime. --Joanna Baillie, Preface to Metrical Legends (xxix) In her Theory on the Classification of ...
Was Shakespeare a Christian, and if so, what kind of Christian was he?(Shakespeare the Biography)(Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare)(Shakespeare's Second Historical Tetralogy: Some Christian Features)(Spiritual Shakespeares)(Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare)(Shakespeare's Religious Language: A Dictionary)(Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance)(Shakespeare the Papist)(A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 1599)(Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Shakespeare The Biography. By Peter Ackroyd. New York: Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, 2005. ISBN: 1-8561-9726-3. Pp. xvi + 572. $32.50. Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare. By Clare Asquith. New York: Public Affairs, 2005. ISBN: 1-5864-8387-0. Pp ....
Gold mining or gold digging? The selling of Narnia.(Walking Through the Wardrobe: A Devotional Quest Into the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)(Aslan's Call: Finding Our Way Into Narnia)(A Family Guide to Narnia: Biblical Truths in C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia)(The Way Into Narnia: A Reader's Guide)(Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles)(Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Walking through the Wardrobe: A Devotional Quest into "[he Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. By Sarah Arthur. Wheaton: Tyndale House, 2005. ISBN 1-4143-0766-7. Pp. xxviii + 189. $9.99. Aslan's Call: Finding Our Way into Narnia. By Mark E. Smith. Downer's Grove, IL: InterVarsity ...
The Heart Set Free: Sin and Redemption in the Gospels, Augustine, Dante, and Flannery O'Connor.(In Praise of Wisdom: Literary and Theological Reflections on Faith and Reason)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Heart Set Free: Sin and Redemption in the Gospels, Augustine, Dante, and Flannery O'Connor. By Kim Paffenroth. New York: Continuum, 2005. ISBN 0-8264-1613-6. Pp. xv + 176. $22.95. In Praise of Wisdom: Literary and Theological Reflections on Faith and Reason. By Kim ...
Chaucer as Children's Literature: Retellings from the Victorian and Edwardian Eras.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Chaucer as Children's Literature: Retellings from the Victorian and Edwardian Eras. By Velma Bourgeois Richmond. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company Publishers, 2004. ISBN 0-7864-1740-4. Pp. vii + 255. $32.00. Velma Bourgeois Richmond's groundbreaking new book, Chaucer as ...
Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical. By Philip F. Gura. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. ISBN 0-8090-3031-4. Pp. xvi + 284. $24.00. Somewhat fast on the heels of George M. Marsden's definitive biography of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford University Press, 2003) comes what Philip F ....
Coleridge's Writings: Volume 5: On the Sublime.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Coleridge's Writings: Volume 5: On the Sublime. Edited by David Vallins. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ISBN 0-333-97250-3. Pp. xvi + 197. $89.95. The fifth volume in the Coleridge's Writings series, On the Sublime, capably edited by David Vallins, is an ...
Wisdom in Love, Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity.(Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Wisdom in Love, Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity. By Rick Anthony Furtak. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. ISBN 0-268-02874-5. Pp. xii +236. Soren Kierkegaard, A Biography. By Joakim Garff. Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse. Princeton: ...
Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market. By Mary Wilson Carpenter. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8214-1515-8. Pp. xxii +206. Illus. $39.95. In the final section of her masterfully researched book, Imperial ...
Chesterton and Evil.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Chesterton and Evil. By Mark Knight. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-8232-2310-8. Pp. 151 + References and Index. $55. At first the idea of a book devoted to the subject of Chesterton and evil might seem strange. Those who knew Chesterton best were unanimous in ...
Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season. Edited by Gary Schmidt and Susan M. Felch. Vermont: Skylight Paths, 2006. ISBN 1-59473-114-4. Pp. vi-326. $21.99. "To everything there is a season," writes the author of Ecclesiastes (3:1-8), and this book completes a four-volume ...
Sinners Welcome.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Sinners Welcome. By Mary Karr. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 0-06-077654-4. Pp. 1-93. $22.95. Mary Karr's fourth collection of poetry, Sinners Welcome, includes forty-four new poems and an afterword essay, "Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer." This collection follows Viper ...
A Slender Grace: Poems.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... A Slender Grace: Poems. By Rod Jellema. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004. ISBN: 0-8028-2782-9 [paper] Pp. xiii + 116. $18.00. How right that the Conference on Christianity and Literature should have designated this book of poems by Rod Jellema, whom a colleague calls " ... ...
After Campanella: To the Sun.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2006; ... <Pre> After Campanella: To the Sun All winter long the hidden life was sleeping:Sap still in trees and stems of flowers brittle.The ground was frozen, pale, the naked earthHardened in shrinking distance, and bodiesDrew back inside themselves like dreamless sleep ....
Without regret.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2006; ... <Pre> Without regret The slug--how he melts(the psalmist tells us) as he flowsover stones, paintinga trail of lightthat leads menowhere I need to go. The snake writes his waythrough scrub, bruising no whiskerof fiber. Only ...
News and announcements.
Jun 22, 2006 ... The Mideastern CCL Regional Conference will be held Oct. 12-13, 2006, at Cedarville University in Ohio. The theme will be "Incarnation in the Classroom: Mentoring the Next Generation of Scholars, Teachers, and Writers." Keynote speaker will be Dr. Jeanne Murray Walker, a professor of ...
As iron on iron.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2006; ... <Pre> As iron on iron Walking this morning I began to thinkhow everything wears its other down. Howthis sidewalk smoothes my rubber soles.How stomachs slick their food, wavesburnish shattered bottles to sea glass,how a prevailing wind twists treesand ...