The Conference on Christianity & Literature

Summer 2005, Vol. 54, No. 4

Articles

The Sins of Children in Brothers Karamazov: Serfdom, Hierarchy, and Transcendence
ANN HRUSKA

The Religious Epigrams in Early Stuart England
JAMES DOELMAN

The Religious Poetry of Ruther Pitter
DON KING

Special Feature

A Life in Psychiatry and Literature: An Interview with Robert Coles
JOHN COX

Review Essays

Waldron's Locke: A Breakthrough
RICHARD E. BRANTLEY

Following the Many Roads of Recent Tolkien Scholarship
RALPH C. WOOD

Poetry

Meeting
D. NIELSEN

Eve to God
On the Return, to Mr. Boswell, of a Dinner Napkin
DAVID D. NOLTA

Tree Art
JULIE MOORE

Book Reviews

Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature by Hannibal Hamlin
Charles A. Huttar

The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton’s Rejection of God as King by Michael Bryson
Matthew Barker

Four Cultures of the West by John W. O’Malley
Brennan O’Donnell

The American Classics: A Personal Essay by Denis Donoghue
Anne Ramirez

Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination by Ross Labrie
Deborah P. Kehoe

In the Dark before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton by Lynn R. Szabo, ed.
Patrick F. O’Connell

The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone by Elizabeth Leake
Robert E. Williams

Understanding Adrienne Kennedy by Philip C. Kolin
Joan Wylie Hall

 

Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)

In the Latest Issue of Christianity & Literature:

What is
Given

Julie L. Moore

As though Moses himself
is standing high
upon this
Rocky Mountain cliff
poised to proclaim
once again God's law,
cars and SUVs pull over,
line up along both sides
of the national park's
concrete curve, cameras
angling, people pointing,
awestruck by a
simple white goat,
her beard and horns
marking her, unmoved
by all the commotion
hundreds of feet below.

She's just standing
where she's safe,
where her kid,
half-hidden by her side,
entices the crowd
that hungers for more
but must be satisfied,
always,
with what is given.

Spring 2008