Winter 2009, Volume 58, Issue 2
From the Editors
ARTICLES
The American "Lives" of Jesus: The Malleable Figure of Christ as a Man of the People
Lisa Moody
Meursault's Dinner with Raymond: A Christian Theme in Albert Camus's L'Étranger
Arthur Scherr
SPECIAL FEATURE
A Seminar on Christian Scholarship
and the Turn to Religion in Literary Studies
Introduction
Susan M. Felch
Subjectivity, Revolution, Invention
Wilson N. Brissett
Behind the Barricades with Lenin? Making Sense of the Marxist Turn to Christianity in the Literature Classroom
Mitchell M. Harris
Postsecularism and a Prophetic Sensibility
Kathryn Ludwig
African American Literature as Spiritual Witness: The Poetic Example of Margaret Alexander Walker
Yolanda Pierce
The Challenge of Christianity for Gay and Lesbian Criticism-and Vice Versa
Norman W. Jones
Seeing "That of God" in Texts: Christian Practices for Training in Perception
Christopher Cobb
The Jouissance of Belief: Devotional Reading and the (Re)Turn to Religion
Liam Corley
The Practices of Faith: Worship and Writing
Karen Dieleman
Our Turn Now? Imitation and the Theological Turn in Literary Studies
Tiffany Eberle Kriner
What Counts as Christian Criticism?
Caleb D. Spencer
Lost in Inculturation: On the Invisible and Fragmented Body of Christ in Literary Studies at the Present Time
Sharon Kim
Afterword
Kevin Hart
In Memoriam
A Tribute to Robert Detweiler (1932-2008)
S. Brent Plate
Book Reviews
Stephen Cox, The New Testament and Literature: A Guide to Literary Patterns
Jay Twomey
Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams, Christianity and the Transformation
of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
Robert Louis Wilken
Tobias Gregory, From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic
Diane Louise Johnson
Adam Potkay, The Story of Joy from the Bible to Late Romanticism
R. D. Stock
Joanne Halleran McMullen and Jon Parrish Peede, Eds., Inside the Church
of Flannery O'Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her Fiction
Avis G. Hewitt
Jarlath Killeen, The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Mimosa Stephenson
Richard Hill and Lyle Smith, Teaching C. S. Lewis: A Handbook
for Professors, Church Leaders, and Lewis Enthusiasts
Ronald Cox
David Parker, The Self in Moral Space: Life Narrative and the Good
David J. Leigh, S. J.
Deborah C. Bowen, Ed., The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity:
Literature and the Christian Critic
James Rovira
William Lange Craig and Paul M. Gould, Eds., The Two Tasks
of the Christian Scholar: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind
Steve J. Van Der Weele
Poetry
Cold Easter
Barbara Crooker
Queen Esther's Name Change
Tania Runyan
Catechism
Brett Foster
My Fellow Creatures Do A Better Job Than I
Mary Kennan Herbert
Report to the Sabbatical Committee
Ann Marie Wranovix
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