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