Christianity and Literature back issues from March 2008:
The parable of the sower and obscurity in the prologue to Marie de France's Lais.(Critical essay)
Mar 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 Lais, a group of twelve lapidary romances. (1) ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe's preachers of the swamp: Dred and the Jeremiad.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... <Pre>The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; andthe desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossomabundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: they shall seethe glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God. Strengthen ye...
Hopkins and Newman: two disagreements.(Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Henry Newman)(Essay)
Mar 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 a revered figure who had facilitated his ...
The pilgrimages of David Lodge.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... <Pre> ... 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 theliterature of "high culture:' --Turner and Turner 23 What are they hoping for? I don't think most ...
Lo & Behold: A Psalm.(Poem)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2008; ... <Pre> 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 morning storm. I fell to my knees ...
Nathan Scott and postmodern testimony.(SPECIAL FEATURE)(Critical essay)
Mar 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 transformed my thinking about civility in public life ...
Homily: Variation on a Sestina.(Poem)(Brief article)
Mar 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. <Pre> Homily: Variation on a Sestina Brothers and sisters of Saint Mark's, church of honey,of walls glistening gold: there goes ...
Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley.(Book review)
Mar 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 British literature to religious interests ....
Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama.(Book review)
Mar 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 Hill-Vasquez's book suggests a primary ...
Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages.(Book review)
Mar 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 be both its greatest strength and ...
Dante: A Brief History.(Book review)
Mar 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 framed by a personal prologue recounting how ...
Shakespeare the Thinker.(Book review)
Mar 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 thought through ...
Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet.(Book review)
Mar 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 editor says, this collection of essays ...
The Third Spring: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones.(Book review)
Mar 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 century, John Henry Newman described his ...
Mere Humanity: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition.(Book review)
Mar 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, Mr. Tumnus (a faun) owns a book titled: Is ...
Mary's House: New and Selected Poems.(Book review)
Mar 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 Upholding Mystery (1996), arranged around ...
How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art.(Book review)
Mar 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, especially contemporary American evangelical ...
What is Given.(Poem)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2008; ... <Pre> What is Given As though Moses himselfis standing highupon this Rocky Mountain diffpoised to proclaimonce again God's law,cars and SUVs pull over,line up along both sidesof the national park'sconcrete curve, camerasangling, people ...