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