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