Spring 1989, Vol. 38, No. 3

Articles
Writing God's Story: Self and Narrative Structure in Augustine's Confessions
LAWRENCE BYRNE     15

DeQuincey's Confessions: A Strategy for Salvation
MARY ANN K. DAVIS     33

The Uncompromising Truth of Billy Bud: Its Miraculous Climax
JOHN HARMON MCELROY     47

Dialogue
Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Beauty of Form
ANTHONY LOW     5

Book Reviews
Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark: An ABC Theologized
W. Dale Brown     63

David Patterson, The Affirming Flame: Religion, Language, Literature
NORMAN R. CARY     64

Kathryn L. Lynch, The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form
ANNE EGGEBROTEN     67

Phoebe S. Spinrad, The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage
JAMES M. GIBSON     69

George Sayer, Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times
DABNEY HART     70

Gene Koppel, The Religious Dimension of Jane Austen's Novels
JOHN C. HAWLEY, S.J.     72

David S. Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
DONALD R. HETTINGA     73

Rene Girard, Trans. by Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
WILLIAM JENKINS     74

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
RODERICK T. LEUPP     77

Scott Donaldson, John Cheever: A Biography
RODERICK T. LEUPP     78

Debora K. Shuger, Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance
ANTHONY LOW     79

Lawrence Dorr, A Slight Momentary Affliction
GLENN MEETER     81

Alzina Stone Dale, T.S. Eliot: The Philosopher Poet
PETER MILWARD, S.J.     83

S.L. Varnado, Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction
PAUL W. NISLY     84

Alfred Alcorn, Vestments
RALPH ST. LOUIS     85

Karol Wojtyla, The Collected Plays and Writings on the Theatre
GARY D. SCHMIDT     87

Samuel B. Southwell, Kenneth Burke and Martin Heidegger: With a Note Against Deconstruction
CLARENCE WALHOUT     89

James W. Woelfel, Albert Camus on the Sacred and the Secular
PATRICIA A. WARD     90

Poetry
It's Least Things Lightly Toil
THARIN WILLIAMSON     13

because
WILLIAM FANNING

Teleological
ELVA MCALLASTER     32

Parousia: The ghosts in the closet
LUCI SHAW     45

August Anniversaries
CHARLES CANTALUPO     46

Blue Bus
BERNICE LARSON WEBB     92

Road to the Oregon coast 
LUCI SHAW     93