The Conference on Christianity & Literature

Autumn 2007, Volume 57, Number 1

Articles

Pointed Remarks: Scholasticism and the Gothic in the English Counter-Enlightenment
Graham Pechey

Elective Divinities: Exile and Religious Conversion in Alfred Döblin's Schicksalsreise (Destiny's Journey), Karl Jokob Hirsch's Heimkehr zu Gott (Return to God), and Karl Stern's The Pillar of Fire
Robert B. McFarland

A Scripture of Their Own: Nineteenth-Century Bible Biography and Feminist Bible Criticism
Rebecca Styler

From Ahasverus to Orpheus: Transformations of Christ in Rainer Maria Rilke
Johannes Wich-Schwarz

Review Essay

Cradling Lives in Our Hands: Towards a Theory of Cultural Biography
Harold K. Bush

Book Reviews

Michael Lieb, Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse, and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon
David V. Urban

Cesáreo Bandera, The Humble Story of Don Quixote: Reflections of the Birth of the Modern Novel
Curtis Gruenler

Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge
Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley

Jean-Luc Marion, Translated by Stephen E. Lewis, The Erotic Phenomenon
Sandra Wynands

Robert Faggen, ed., The Notebooks of Robert Frost
Jeff Johnson

Beth Kathryn Curran, Touching God: The Novels of Gerges Bernanos and the Films of Robert Bresson
Joseph Cunneen

Bernard Bergonzi, A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel
Adam Schwartz

Gary M. Ciuba, Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
John F. Desmond

Poetry

Down the Sea's Throat, Singing
Jennifer Strange

Salt Formations
Kim Bridgeford

Starry Night
William Virgil Davis

Ash Wednesday
Anya Silver

St. Melville
Angela O'Donnell

Local Warming
Not Necessarily Another Angel Poem
Devon Miller-Duggan

 

 

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