The Conference on Christianity & Literature

Autumn 1994, Vol. 44, No. 1

Articles
The Bible in Jane Eyre
CATHERINE BROWN TKACZ     3

Sexuality and Mysticism in the Poetry of William Everson
ROSS LABRIE     29

Face to Face: Samuel Beckett and Vaclav Havel
PHYLLIS CAREY     43

Dialogue
Comedy and Christianity: Surveying the Ground
PEGGY THOMPSON     59

Through a Glas Darkly: Derrida, Literature, and the Specter of Christianity
TERRY R. WRIGHT

Book Reviews
Richard Kay, Dante's Christian Astrology
CHAUNCEY WOOD     93

Roy Battenhouse, ed., Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary
JOHN D. COX     95

John T. Shawcross, John Milton: The Self and the World
ANTHONY LOW     98

Isaiah Berlin, The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism
ELIZABETH POWERS     99

Patricia Demers, Heaven Upon Earth: The Form of Moral and Religious Children's Literature to 1850
Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., Moral Instruction and Fiction for Children
GARY D. SCHMIDT     102

Rolland Hein, George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker
LARRY E. FINK     105

Michael E. Allsopp and David Anthony Downes, eds., Saving Beauty: Further Studies in Hopkins
STEVEN C. WALKER     108

Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision: Against the Modern Failure of Nerve
ANTHONY RIZZUTO     109

Paula J. Carlson and Peter S. Hawkins, eds., Listening for God: Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith
FAYE P. WHITAKER     111

Theodore P. Fraser, The Modern Catholic Novel in Europe
GERALD J. RUSSELLO     113

Luci Shaw, Writing the River: Poems
JANET MCCANN     115

Charles H. Lippy, Being Religious American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States
CHARLES TIMOTHY SUMMERLIN     117

Poetry
Beyond Belief
IDA FASEL     28

Probable Loss
JOAN F. PETERSON     58

The Things He Carried
TIM BASCOM     120

News
ELVA MCALLASTER     124

Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)

In the Latest Issue of Christianity & Literature:

What is
Given

Julie L. Moore

As though Moses himself
is standing high
upon this
Rocky Mountain cliff
poised to proclaim
once again God's law,
cars and SUVs pull over,
line up along both sides
of the national park's
concrete curve, cameras
angling, people pointing,
awestruck by a
simple white goat,
her beard and horns
marking her, unmoved
by all the commotion
hundreds of feet below.

She's just standing
where she's safe,
where her kid,
half-hidden by her side,
entices the crowd
that hungers for more
but must be satisfied,
always,
with what is given.

Spring 2008