The Conference on Christianity & Literature

Winter 2008, Volume 57, Issue 2

Articles

Wild Writing: Holy Stigmata and the AestheticsĀ of "Sacred Pain" in Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy
Carla A. Arnell

Biblical Analogy and Secondary Allegory in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale
Carl C. Curtis III

House-Building and House-Holding at Walden
James Dougherty

The Problem of Violence Against the Other in Twentieth-Century Apocalyptic Fiction
David J. Leigh, S. J.

Review Essays

From Wyclif to Babel: Some First Books of Poetry
Paul J. Willis

Christian Sensibility in our Un-Christian Age: Two Approaches to Iris Murdoch's Moral Depth
J. Robert Baker

Special Feature

2007 Conference on Christianity and Literature Awards

Book Reviews

Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity
Maurice Hunt

David Brakke, Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity
Jeffrey Burton Russell

Gay Gibson Cima, Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race
Judith R. Hiltner

Harold K. Bush, Jr., Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age
Victor Strandberg

Ronald Paulson, Sin and Evil: Moral Values in Literature
Frank G. Novak, Jr.

Walter Hooper, ed., C. S. Lewis, Collected Letters: Volume III, Narnia, Cambridge and Joy, 1950-1963
Don W. King

Glen Robert Gill, Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth
Mark A. Hamilton, Categorizing Twentieth-Century Film Using Northrop
Frye's
Anatomy of Criticism: Relating Literature and Film
David Gay

Kevin J. Vanhoozer, James K. A. Smith, and Bruce Ellis Benson, eds., Hermeneutics at the Crossroads
Donald G. Marshall

Poetry

Love's Humbling
Stella Nesanovich

Floreate Edge
Christine Perrin

Thoughts on the Afterlife
John Ruff

The Man Running Naked into the Dark
Robert Cording

 

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