Winter 1999, Vol. 48, No. 2
Articles
In Memoriam (Shasaku Endo) 141
Reflections on Shusaku Endo and Silence
JUNKO ENDO 145
Hearing God in Silence: The Fiction of Endo Shusaku
VAN C. GESSEL 149
The Transformation of Father Rodrigues in Shusaku Endo’s Silence
HITOSHI SANO 165
From Resistance to Kenosis: Reconciling Cultural Difference in the Fiction of Endo Shusaku
JOHN T. NETLAND 177
Shusaku Endo’s River of Life
LUKE M. REINSMA 195
Book Reviews
James. E. Brenneman, Canons in Conflict: Negotiating Texts in True and False Prophecy
LIONEL BASNEY 213
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Is There a Meaning in This Text? The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge
ROBERT P. DUNN 214
John L. Mahoney, ed., Seeing into the Life of Things: Essays on Religion and Literature
PETER STILES 217
Donald H. Matthews, Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature
DOROTHY H. BROWN 219
Lawrence Besserman, Chaucer’s Biblical Poetics
J. STEPHEN RUSSELL 221
Gale H. Carrithers, Jr., and James D. Hardy, Jr., Age of Iron: English Renaissance Tropologies of Love and Power
MAURICE HUNT 223
J. Martin Evans, The Miltonic Moment
LELAND RYKEN 226
Roger Lundin, Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief
JANE DONAHUE EBERWEIN 228
Susan von Rohr Scaff, History, Myth, and Music: Thomas Mann’s Timely Fiction
EUGENE WEBB 230
Mary Bryden, Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God
LAURA BARGE 233
Poetry
If I Could Speak a Blessing
JUNE BARROW 176
After the Lunar Eclipse
WALT MCDONALD 212
Fat Tuesday 237
Dog City after Dark 238
RICK HILL
Questing 239
What If 240
August Heat 243
THARIN WILLIAMSON
My Blood Flies West
STELLA NESANOVICH 244