Autumn 1998, Vol. 47, No. 1

Articles
The Invisible Father
SALLY FITZGERALD     5

The Enduring Sacred Strain: The Place of The Tale of the Sankgreal within Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur
JENNIE-REBECCA FALCETTA     21

“No Innocent Work”: Theology and Psychology in William Golding’s The Spire
MARGARET HALLISSY     37

Presence and Absence: God in Fantasy Literature
CATH FILMER-DAVIES     59

Book Reviews
Kathy Eden, Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition
DAVID ANTHONY DOWNES     77

Brian D. Ingraffia, Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God’s Shadow
AMY MANDELKER     79

Ben Witherington, III, ed., History, Literature, and Society in the Books of Acts
J. CHRISTIAN WILSON     81

Wesley A. Kort, “Take, Read”: Scripture, Textuality, and Cultural Practice
JOHN MICHAEL CRAFTON     84

Paul G. Remley, Old English Biblical Verses
GERALD J. RUSSELLO     86

Lynne M. Deming, ed., The Feminine Mystic: Readings from Early Spiritual Writers
DARLENE E. ERICKSON     88

Theresa Tinkle, Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry
VELMA BOURGEOIS RICHMOND     91

Hilary Hinds, God’s Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism
KATHRYN R. MCPHERSON     93

Stephen Prickett, Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible
DANIEL M. MCVEIGH     95

Aliki Barstone, Michael Tomasek Manson, and Carol J. Singley, eds., The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era
PETER STILES     97

Ross Labrie, The Catholic Imagination in American Literature
JOSEPH SCHWARTZ     99

Patrick H. Samway, S.J., Walker Percy: A Life
JONATHAN POTTER     101

Peter A. Huff, Allen Tate and the Catholic Revival: Trace of the Fugitive Gods
JOSEPH SCHWARTZ     103

Michael R. Molino, Questioning Tradition, Language, and Myth: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
JOSEPH SENDRY     105

Jamie S. Scott, ed., “And the Birds Began to Sing”: Religion and Literature in Post-Colonial Cultures
NORMAN R. CARY     109

Anniyil Tharakan, Quester by the River and Other Poems
MICHAEL E. ALLSOPP     111

Bruce Beasley, Summer Mystagogia
DONALD PLATT     114

Poetry
De Profundis
JEAN TIMBERLAKE     19

Trek
SANDRA R. DUGUID     20

Ignorance Depends on How Long You Hold on to What You Know
IDA FASEL     35

Looking at Muretto’s Adoration
IDA FASEL     36

POLICE ARE STILL TRYING TO ESTABLISH THE IDENTITY…
ANN APPLEGRATH     57

Peace
KEVIN HADDUCK     58

That Child Abandoned on the Porch
WALT MCDONALD     75

A Stadium Full of Bears
MARK STEVICK     76

Thirst
WILLIAM TATE     117

Offering
WILLIAM TATE     118

Layers
LUCI SHAW     123

White on Black
LUCI SHAW    124