Autumn 2004, Vol. 54, No. 1
From the Editors
"The Passionate Pursuit of the Real": Christianity and Literature in Our Time
DARRYL TIPPENS
Articles
Contested Translations: The Gospel versus Foreign Missionaries in John Munonye's Obi
WILLIAM F. PURCELL
Sex, Money, and Food as Spiritual Signposts in Doris Betts's Sharp Teeth of Love
MARTHA GREEN EADS
Francis Phelan in Purgatory: William Kennedy's Catholic Imagination in Ironweed
BRENNAN O'DONNELL
The Figure of Jerusalem: Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx
CHRISTOPHER WISE
Dialogues
A Comment on the State of the Art: Poetry in 2004
JEANNE MURRAY WALKER
"That was a good story you wrote": Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy
J. ROBERT BAKER
Poetry
Samsons all
Samson was hair-brained
Prophecy
Monika Lee
Miriam: A Postlude from Numbers 12
Darlene Moore Berg
Elisha’s Bones
Julie Moore
The Road to Emmaus
Chris Mann
Ephphatha
Leslie Shiel
Book Reviews
Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture by David Lyle Jeffrey
George L. Scheper
C.S. Lewis, Collected Letters: Volume II, Books, Broadcasts, and War 1931-1949 by Walter Hooper, Ed.
Don W. King
The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief by Richard Barber
Julianne Smith
Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Mardsen
Michael G. Ditmore
John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit by Jeanne Shami
Daniel W. Doerksen
Contending for the Faith: The Church’s Engagement with Culture by Ralph C. Wood
David V. Urban
George MacDonald: Images of His World by Rolland Hein
James L. Sauer