Autumn 2003, Vol. 53, No. 1

Articles

Faith and Language: Walter Hilton, St. Augustine, and Poststructural Semiotics
Jeffrey Ringer

Narratives of Hope, Fictions of Happiness: Samuel Johnson and Enlightenment Experience
Samuel T. Joeckel

The Flowering Cross: Suffering, Reality, and the Christ Motif in Francis Stuart’s The Pillar of Cloud and Redemption
Brendan McNamee

George A. Buttrick and Frederick Buechner: Messengers of Reconciling Laughter
Chad Wriglesworth

The Possession of Paradise: A.S. Byatt’s Reinscription of Milton
Susan E. Colon

Special Feature

Ideas of the Good: Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea
Diane N. Capitani

Poetry

First Scrutiny
Instrument of Good Works #59
Hans Ostrom

Winter
Graham A. Cole

Nor Are My Ways Your Ways
Amanda Witt

Meditating on the Ways I Pray
Praying with Music
Fredrick Zydek

A Little Night Music
Ida Fasel

The Almighty of Days
Fredrick Zydek

Book Reviews

Women’s Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture by Cynthia Scheinberg
Christine L. Krueger

Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing by Alfred I. Tauber
J.R. Holt

Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman
Rebecca M. Painter

Robert Frost: The Ethics of Ambiguity by John H. Timmerman
Edward J. Ingebretsen, S.J.

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie
J. Robert Baker

Truth and Reconciliation: The Confessional Mode in South African Literature by Susan VanZanten Gallagher
John C. Hawley