Winter 1991, Vol. 40, No. 2

Articles
Deconstruction and Meaning in Medieval Mysticism
DAVID THOMSON     107

The Theological Dimensions of Tolstoy's Resurrection
DAVID PATTERSON     123

Moral Transcendence in Iris Murdoch's Nuns and Soldiers: Apropos of Theocentric Ethics
GARY S. HAUK     137

Dialogue
"Guardian of the Human Spirir": The Moral Foundation of
Nineteen Eighty-Four
KENNETH MATTHERS     157

Book Reviews
Kevin Hart, The Trespass of Sign: Deconstruction, Theology, and Philosophy
CLARENCE WALHOUT     169

Frank Burch Brown, Religious Aesthetics: A Theological Study of Making and Meaning
JOYCE E. ROGERS     170

Sister Mary Francis Slattery, The Theory and Aesthetic Evaluation of Literature
PAUL W. NISLY     171

Terry J. Prewitt, The Elusive Covenant: A Structural-Semiotic Reading of Genesis
DAVID TOMLINSON     173

Regina M. Schwartz, ed., The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory
JAN WOJCIK     174

Ann W. Astell, The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages
DAVID C. FOWLER     175

Sandro Sticca, The Planctus Mariae in the Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages
JAMES M. GIBSON     178

Eileen Gardiner, ed., Visions of Heaven and Hell before Dante
GARY D. SCHMIDT     179

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman
CAROLYN M. CRAFT     181

Margot K. Louis, Swinburne and His Gods: The Roots and Growth of an Agnostic Poetry
DALE KRAMER     183

Catherine Phillips, ed., Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Letters
PETER MILWARD     184

James C. Cowan, D.H. Lawrence and the Trembling Balance
JOHN C. HAWLEY, S.J.     185

Peter Bien, Kazantzakis: The Politics of the Spirit
DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY     187

Charles Williams, Outlines of Romantic Theology
BRIAN L. HORNE     189

William W. Bevis, Mind of Winter: Wallace Stevens, Meditation, and Literatue
BEULAH P. BAKER     190

Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor
ROBERT DRAKE     191

Daniel C. Noel, ed., Paths to the Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell and the Study of Religion
NANCY CORSON CARTER     193

John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
LYNDA HAAS     195

Joseph Dewey, In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age
KAY PUTTOCK     196

Poetry
Infected
ED HIGGINS     122

Genesis through Revelation
THARIN WILLIAMSON     168

Bind
KEITH COX     199