1990s

31.3 (Published Autumn 1999)

Articles

Regina M. Schwartz, “Real Hunger: Milton's Version of the Eucharist”
David McCracken, “Wordsworth, the Bible, and the Interesting”
Kenneth P. Kramer, “A New Type of Intellectual: Contemplative Withdrawal and Four Quartets”
Harry Walsh, “The Post-Soviet Apocalypse: Anatolii Kim's Quest for Universal Redemption”

Book Reviews

J. Massyngbaerde Ford on:

Edward J. Ahearn’s Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age
Christopher Burdon’s The Apocalypse in England. Revelation Unravelling, 1700-1834

Cheri Larsen Hoeckley on:

Ed. Anne Hogan and Andrew Bradstock, Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the Angel in the House
Linda M. Lewis’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress: Face to Face with God
Tricia Lootens’ Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization

Kenneth P. Kramer on:

Maurice S. Friedman’s The Affirming Flame: A Poetics of Meaning

Book Notices

George Kitchen, Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography
Leonard P. Hindsley, The Mystics of Engelthal: Writings from a Medieval Monastery
Sheila Delany, Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham
Colleen Jaurretche, The Sensual Philosophy: Joyce and the Aesthetics of Mysticism
Ed. David Mills, The Pilgrim's Guide: C.S. Lewis and the Art of Witness
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Is There A Meaning in This Text? The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge

31.2 (Published Summer 1999)

Articles

Jill Muller, “Gertrude of Helfta and Hopskins's The Wreck of the Deutschland: A Victorian Catholic Context”
M. Kathleen Madigan, “St. Therese's Autobiography: The 'Ever New Hymn of Love'”
Dwayne Eutsey, “Mark Twain's Attitudes toward Religion: Sympathy for the Devil or Radical Christianity?”
Bert Hornback, “Faith, Hope, and Love in the Poetry of Ernest Sandeen”
Edwin Duncan, “Fears of the Apocalypse: The Anglo-Saxons and the Coming of the First Millenium” (Correction)

Book Reviews

John Renard on:

Ed. Stefan Wild, The Qur'an as Text
Eds. Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle, Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa

V. Stanley Benfell on:

William Franke’s Dante's Interpretive Journey

J.T. Scanlan on:

Michael Prince’s Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics, and the Novel
Marcus Walsh’s Shakespeare, Milton, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Editing: The Beginnings of Interpretive Scholarship

Marjorie Burns on:

Eds. Charles A. Hutter and Peter Schakel, The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams

David Williams on:

Catherine Pickstock’s After Writing: On the Litergical Consummation of Philosophy

Book Notices

Wesley A. Kort, "Take, Read": Scripture, Textuality, and Cultural Practice
Alison Milbank, Dante and the Victorians
Patrick Allitt, Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome
Richard M. Gale, The Divided Self of Williams James
Daniel Wojcik, The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America

31.1 (Published Spring 1999)

Articles

• Brian McFadden, "Visions of the Other World in Medieval Literature: An Introduction"

Judgment Day in Old English Literature

• Edwin Duncan, “Fears of the Apocalypse: The Anglo-Saxons and the Coming of the First Millenium”

• James W. Earl, “Prophecy and Parable in Medieval Apocalyptic History"

The Other World in Dante's Allegory

• Christopher Kleinhenz, “The Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead: Burial, Entombment, and Cemeteries in Dante's Divine Comedy”

• Thomas Kenney, “From Francesca to Francesco: Transcribing the Tale of Passion from the Inferno to the Paradiso, or Thomas Aquinas as Romancier”

Paradoxes of the Self in the Other World

• Barbara Newman, “Intimate Pieties: Holy Trinity and Holy Family in the Late Middle Ages"

• Daniel F. Pigg, “Apocalypse Then: The Ideology of Literary Form in Piers Plowman”

• David Williams, "Soul and Self in the Next World: The Paradox of the Perfected Subject"

Note: this special issue did not include book reviews

30.3 (Published Autumn 1998)

Articles

• Ranen Omer, "Jewish Diasporism: The Aesthetics of Ambivalence"

Exile and Homecoming in Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism

• Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, “Israel and Jewish Writing: The Next Fifty Years”

• Barbara Mann, “Toward and Understanding of Jewish Imagism"

• Leslie Morris, "Mutterland/Niemandsland: Diaspora and Displacement in the Poetry of Rose Ausländer"

Allegiances to the Past in Jewish American Poetry and Fiction

• Stephen Fredman, “Allen Ginsberg and Lionel Trilling: The Hasid and the Mitnaged”

• Sophia Lehmann, “Exodus and Homeland: The Representation of Israel in Saul Bellow's To Jerusalem and Back and Philip Roth's Operation Shylock”

• Norman Finkelstein, "Looking for the Way: The Poetry of Harvey Shapiro

The Wandering Jews and "Others"

• Eliza Russi Lowen McGraw, “'Alone But Not Lonesome': Jewishness in Robert Penn Warren's Flood"

• Rena Potok, “The Wandering Jews and the Irishman: Paradigm Shifts and the Influence of James Joyce in Modern Israeli Fiction”

Poetry

• Max Westler
• Susan Dickman
• Henry Weinfield
• Kathryn Hellerstein
• Nancy Shiffrin
• Norman Finkelstein
• Karen Alkalay-Gut
• Miron Bialoszewski

Note: this special issue did not include book reviews

30.2 (Published Summer 1998)

Articles

Anthony Low, “Privacy, Community, and Society: Confession as a Cultural Indicator in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Michael Raiger, “Sidney's Defense of Plato”
Michael Schiefelbein, “'The Lessons of True Religion': Mary Shelley's Tribute to Catholicism in Valperga”
Mary Louise Gude, “J.K. Huysmans, Louis Massignon, and the Language of Mysticism”

Book Reviews

Charles A. Huttar on:

Daniel E. Ritchie’s Reconstructing Literature in an Ideological Age: A Biblical Poetics and Literary Studies from MIlton to Burke
Eds. Donna B. Hamilton and Richard Strier, Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England
Hilary Hinds’s God's Englishwomen: Seventeenth-century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism

Matthew Fike on:

Richard Mallette’s Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England
P.M. Oliver’s Donne's Religious Writing: A Discourse of Feigned Devotion

Ben Withers on:

Marc Michael Epstein’s Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature

Ranen Omer on:

David Aberbach’s Revolutionary Hebrew: Empire and Crisis: Four Peaks in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Survival

Isabel Charles on:

Gail Porter Mandell’s Madeleva: A Biography

Dan Gates on:

Peter Iver Kaufman’s Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection

Christopher Strathman on:

Simon P. Sibelman’s Silence in the Novels of Elie Wiesel

30.1 (Published Spring 1998)

Articles

David Jasper, “The Twenty-Third Psalm in English Literature”
Henry Weinfield, “The Noble Epicureans: Variations on a Buried Theme (Dante and Wordsworth)”
Burton Raffel, “Shakespeare and the Catholic Question”
Evelyn I. Funda, “Telling a Community's Story: The Epiphanies of Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock”

Book Reviews

Carl A. Newsom on:

The Postmodern Bible and Culture Collective’s The Postmodern Bible

Christopher Vecsey on:

Louise M. Burkhart’s Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico

John Gatta on:

David G. Miller’s The Word Made Flesh Made Word: The Failture and Redemption of Metaphor in Edward Taylor's Christographia
Philip F. Gura’s The Crossroads of American History and Literature
David Goslee’s Romanticism and the Anglican Newman

David Marshall on:

John Felstiner’s Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
Trans. Hans-Georg Gadamer, eds. Richard Heinemann and Bruce Krajewski, intro. Gerald L. Burns, Milton’s Burden of Interpretation
Shira Wolosky’s Language Mysticism: The Negative Way of Language in Eliot, Beckett, and Celan

24.3 (Autumn 1992)

Articles

• Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., “Mark’s Tragic Vision: Gethsemane”
• Jo Ann Cavallo, “Agricultural Imagery in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Truth”
• John J. Murphy, “Willa Cather and the Literature of Christian Mystery”
• Richard Freis, “Scobie’s World”

Book Reviews

• Ritamary Bradley, SFCC on:
  • Evelyn Underhill, The Ways of the Spirit
  • Evelyn Underhill, Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy
  • Dana Greene, Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life
• John D. Cox on:
  • René Girard, A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare
  • Max Harris, Theater and Incarnation
  • Cynthia Marshall, Last Things and Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology
• John Gatta on:
  • Edwin Haviland Miller, Salem is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathanial Hawthorne
  • Sacvan Bercovitch, The Office of The Scarlet Letter
• David Hammond on:
  • S.A. Grave, Conscience in Newman’s Thought
  • Stephen Thomas, Newman and Heresy: The Anglican Years
  • Ian Ker, Newman on Being a Christian

Book Notices

• David Stern, Parables in Midrash: Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature
• Jewel Spears Brooker, ed., The Placing of T.S. Eliot
• Averil Cameron, Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse
• Alison Weber, Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity

24.2 (Summer 1992)

Articles

• Donald Marshall, “Making Letters Speak: Interpreter as Orator in Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana”
• Sharon Carson, “Shaking the Foundation: Liberation Theology in Narrative of hte Life of Frederick Douglass”
• Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, “The Transfiguration of Plato in the Erotic Philosophy of Vladimir Solov’ev”
• W. Dale Brown, “‘To Be a Saint’: Frederick Buechner’s The Final Beast and Rewriting Graham Greene”

Book Reviews

• Roger C. Schlobin on:
  • Edwin M. Good, In Turns of Tempest: A Reading of Job with a Translation
  • David Penchansky, The Betrayal of Job: Ideological Conflict in Job
  • Bruce Zuckerman, Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint
• C.F. Delaney on:
  • James Hoopes, ed., Peirce on Signs: Writing on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Roberta Kevelson, ed., Peirce and Law: Issues in Pragmatism, Legal, and Semiotics
• Mary Gerhart on:
  • Mark S. Burrows and Paul Rorem, eds., Biblical Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective
  • Robert Detweiler and William G. Doty, eds., The Demonic Imagination: Biblical Text and Secular Story
  • Stephen Prickett, ed., Reading the Text: Biblical Criticism and Literary Theory
• John C. Meagher on:
  • Northrop Frye, Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays 1974-1988
  • Northrop Frye, The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion
  • Northrop Frye, Words With Power, Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature

Book Notices

• J. Hillis Miller, Victorian Subjects
• Jean-Michel Rabate, Joyce Upon the Void
• Conrad E. Ostwalt, Jr., After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser
• Lee K. Abbott, Living after Midnight
• John H. Timmerman, John Steinbeck’s Fiction: The Aesthetics of the Road Taken
• John Neary, Something and Nothingness: The Ficiton of John Updike and John Fowles

24.1 (Spring 1992)

Articles

• Mustansir Mir, “Dialogue in the Qur’an”
• Frances M. Malpezzi, “’As I Ride’: The Beast and His Burden in Donne’s ‘Goodfriday’”
• Robert A. Kantra, “Undenominational Satire: Chesterton and Lewis Revisited”
• John K. Roth, “From Night to Twilight: A Philosopher’s Reading of Elie Wiesel”

Book Reviews

• Gerald L. Bruns on Daniel Boyarin, Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash
• Laura Laffrado on William L. Andrews, Sargent Bush, Jr., Annette Kolodny, Amy Schrager Lang, and Daniel B. Shea, eds., Journeys in the New Worlds: Early American Women’s Narratives
• Gail M. Kienitz​​​​​​​ on Herbert F. Tucker, Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism
• George B. Tennyson on:
  • Deborah L. Collins, Thomas Hardy and His God: A Liturgy of Unbelief
  • David Miller, W. H. Hudson and the Elusive Paradise
  • John Thacker, Edwin Drood: Antichrist in the Cathedral
  • Michael Wheeler, Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology
• Clifford Marks on:
  • David M. Bethea, The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction
  • Joseph Dewey, In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age

Book Notices

• Jill Robbins, Prodigal Son/Elder Brother: Interpretation and Alterity in Augustine, Petrarch, Kafka, Levinas
• Walker Percy, Signposts in a Strange Land
• Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp, Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher
• Donald J. Crowley and Sue Mitchell Crowley, eds. Critical Essays on Walker Percy

23.3 (Autumn 1991) - Special Issue on Women's Religion

Women’s Scripture

• Alicia Ostriker, “A Word Made Flesh: The Bible and Revisionist Women’s Poetry”
• Carolyn A. Mitchell, “’I Love to Tell the Story’: Biblical Revisions in _Beloved_”
• Janet L. Larson, “Lady-Wrestling for Victorian Soul: Discourse, Gender, and Spirituality in Women’s Texts”

Women’s Lives

• Margaret P. Hannay, “’Wisdome the Wordes’: Psalm Translation and Elizabethan Women’s Spirituality”
• Mitzi M. Brunsdale, “Stages on her Road: Sigrid Undset’s Spiritual Journey”
• Marcia Flank, “Strange Plant: Nature and Spirituality in the Poetry of Zelda”

Women’s Mysticism

• Carole Slade, “Alterity in Union: The Mystical Experience of Angelo of Foligno and Margery Kempe”
• Karla F.C. Holloway, “Holy Heat: Rituals of the Spirit in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God”
• Sonia Gernes, “Transcendent Women: Uses of the Mystical in Margaret Atwood’s _Cat’s Eye and Marilynne Robinson’s _Housekeeping_”

23.2 (Summer 1991)

Articles

• Robert Vacca, “The Theology of Disorder in the Iliad”
• Anthony R. Grasso, C.S.C., “Theology and Structure in ‘The Dream of the Rood’”
• Felicia Bonaparte, “Carrying the Word of the Lord to the Gentiles: Silias Marner and the Translation of Scripture into a Secular Text”
• Yoseph Milman, “The Sacrifice of Isaac and Its Subversive Variations in Contemporary Hebrew Protest Poetry”

Book Reviews

• Stephen M. Fallon on:
  • Nathaniel H. Henry, The True Wayfaring Christian: Studies in Milton’s Puritanism
  • Dennis Danielson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Milton
  • Michael Lieb, The Sinews of Ulysses: Form and Convention in Milton’s Works
  • Mary Ann Radzinowicz, Milton’s Epics and the Book of Psalms
• J.T. Scanlan​​​​​​​ on Bertram Davis, Thomas Percy: A Scholar-Cleric in the Age of Johnson
• Philip C. Rule, S.J. on:
  • Anya Taylor, Coleridge’s Defense of the Human
  • J. Robert Barth, S.J., Coleridge and the Power of Love
  • James S. Cutsinger, The Form of Transformed Vision: Coleridge and the Knowledge of God
• Jerome Loving on:
  • Albert J. von Frank, ed. David M. Robinson, Intro., The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume I
  • Teresa Toulouse and Andrew Delbanco, ed., The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume II
  • Wesley T. Mott, ”The Strains of Eloquence”: Emerson and His Sermons
  • Alan D. Hodder, Emerson’s Rhetoric of Revelation: “Nature,” the Reader, and the Apocalypse Within
  • Evelyn Barish, Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy
• John F. Desmond on:
  • Norman Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene Volume I
  • Anne T. Salvatore, Greene and Kierkegaard: The Discourse of Belief
  • Maria Couto, Graham Greene: On the Frontier
  • Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, Graham Greene’s Childless Fathers
  • Neil McEwan, Graham Greene
  • Grahame Smith, The Achievement of Graham Greene

Book Notices

• Robert M. Polhemus, Erotic Faith, Being in Love from Jane Austen to D.H. Lawrence

23.1 (Spring 1991)

Articles

• Gail Hinich Sutherland, “Aśvaghosa an Saigyō: A Comparison of Two Buddhist Poets”
• Ronald W. Cooley, “Iconoclasm and Self-Definition in Milton’s Of Reformation”
• Maria R. Lichtmann, "The Incarnational Aesthetic of Gerard Manley Hopkins_
• Dennis McCort, “Kafka Koans”

Book Reviews

• K.S. Narayana Rao on:
  • Robert P. Goldman, trans. and ed., The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume I: Balakanda
  • Sheldon I. Pollock, trans., Robert P. Goldman, ed., The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of India. Volume II: Ayodhyakanda
• Nancy E. Arneson​​​​​​ on Beatrice Batson, John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding and the Pilgrim’s Progress: An Overview of Literary Studies, 1960-1987
• Darlene Unrue on:
  • John Gatta, Gracious Laughter: The Meditative Wit of Edward Taylor
  • Allen C. Guelzo, Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate
  • Michael G. Hall, The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather
• Brian Hinton on Thomas Dilworth, The Shape of Meaning in the Poetry of David Jones

Book Notices Reviews

• Pamela Raabe, Imitating God: The Allegory of Faith in Piers Plowman
• Margot K. Louis, Swinburne and His Gods: The Roots and Growth of an Agnostic Poetry
• Rochard Giannone, Flannery O’Connor and the Mystery of Love

29.3 (Published Autumn 1997)

Articles

Emily E. Stockard, “’Transposed to Form and Dignity’: Christian Folly and the Subversion of Hierarchy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Catharine Randall, “The ‘Protestants’ Progress’: Reading Reformed Travel Literature in Early Modern France”
Steven Shankman, “Participation and Reflective Distance: The End of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey and the Resistance to Doctrine”

Book Reviews

Ann Astell on:

Eds. David Aers and Lynn Staley, The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture
Thomas H. Bestul’s Texts of the Passion: Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society

Celestin J. Walby on:

Dennis Flynn’s John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility

Mary Katherine Tillman on:

Thomas K. Carr’s Newman and Gadamer: Toward a Hermeneutics of Religious Knowledge
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe’s Two Poets of the Oxford Movement: John Keble and John Henry Newman
David Goslee’s Romanticism and the Anglican Newman

Ranen Omer on:

Trans. Marc-Alain Ouaknin and Llewellyn Brown, The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud

James Williams on:

Robert Detweiler’s Breaking the Fall: Religious Readings of Contemporary Fiction and Uncivil Rites: American Fiction, Religion, and the Public Sphere

Book Notices

David Williams, Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Medieval Thought and Literature
Ed. Alonzo Johnson and Paul Jerslid, “Ain’t Gonna Lay My ‘Ligion Down’”: African-American Religion in the South
Ed. Morny Joy, Paul Ricoeur and Narrative: Context and Contestation
Brian D. Ingraffia, Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God’s Shadow

29.2 (Published Summer 1997)

Articles

Donald Capps, “Newman’s Truth”
Joseph Zornado, “A Becoming Habit: Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction of Unknowing”
David K. Danow, “Epiphany and Apocalypse in Holocaust Writing: Aharon Appelfeld”

Book Reviews

Gerald L. Bruns on:

David Stern’s Midrash and Theory: Ancient Jewish Exegesis and Contemporary Literary Studies

Dolores Warwick Frese on:

Carole Slade’s St. Teresa of Avila: Author of a Heroic Life

Andrew J. McKenna on:

Sandor Goodhart’s Sacrificing Commentary: Reading the End of Literature
David Lyle Jeffrey’s People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture

Book Notices

Ernst Behler, German Romantic Literary Theory
Dorothy Huff Oberhaus, Emily Dickinson’s Fascicles: Method and Meaning
Eli Ben-Joseph, Aesthetic Persuasion: Henry James, the Jews, and Race
Joseph Pearce, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton
Jacob Korg, Ritual and Experiment in Modern Poetry

29.1 (Published Spring 1997)

Articles

Walter L. Reed, “Soul-Making: Art, Therapy, and Theology in Keats, Hillman, and Bakhtin”
Fatemeh Keshavarz, “The Call to Prayer from the Cypress Tree: Modernity and Redefining the Spiritual in Persian Poetry”
Maurice Friedman, “Paul Celan and Martin Buber: The Poets of Dialogue and The Eclipse of God”
Peter C. Brown, “Negative Capability and the Mystery of Hope in Malamud’s ‘The First Seven Years’”

Book Reviews

J.T. Scanlan on:

J.C.D. Clark’s Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion, and English Literature from the Restoration to Romanticism
G.H. Pittock’s Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Donald Davie’s The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England

Thomas A. Vogler on:

Jonathan Lamb’s The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century

Roger Lundin on:

David M. Robinson’s Emerson and the Conduct of Life: Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work
Irena S.M. Makarushka’s Religious Imagination and Language in Emerson and Nietzsche
Susan L. Roberson’s Emerson in His Sermons: A Man-Made Self

Book Notices

Christopher Baswell, Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer
Golda Werman, Milton and Midrash
John D. Barbour, Versions of Deconversion: Autobiography and the Loss of Faith

28.2-3, The Endless Knot: Literature and Religion in Ireland, Double Issue (Published Summer-Autumn 1996)

Articles

Tom Duddy, “Derrida and the Druids: Writing, Lore, and Power in Early Celtic Society”
David Wheatley, “Three Supernatural Lyrics”
Terry Eagleton, “The Irish Sublime”
Theo Dorgan, “Poems”
Tadhg Ó Dúshláine, “Going for Baroque: The Irish Spiritual Reformation: 1600-1800”
Sinéad Morrissey, “Restoration”
Joseph Spence, “Allegories for a Protestant Nation: Irish Tory Historical Fiction, 1820-1850”
Eva Bourke, “From To the Distributor of Souls”
W.J. McCormack, “The ‘Plymouth’ Brethren? Prolegomena to the Re-writing of J.M. Synge’s Biography”
Aine Miller, “Poems”
Robert Welch, “Sacrament and Significance: Some Reflections on Religion and the Irish”
Alan Titley, “Parables”
Norman Vance, “Catholic and Protestant Literary Visions of ‘Ulster’: Now You See It, Now You Don’t”
Eamonn Hughes, “’Town of Shadows’: Representations of Belfast in Recent Fiction”
Bernard O’Donoghue, “Poems”
Anne McCartney, “’The Impact of Reality’: Francis Stuart’s Narrative Theology”

28.1 (Published Spring 1996)

Articles

David Jasper, “The Death and Rebirth of Religious Language”
David Goslee, “Arnold and the Hero-Worship of Jesus”
Christopher J. Knight, “George Steiner’s Religion of Abstraction”
Christopher Wise, “Qur’anic Hermeneutics, Sufism, and Le Devoir de Violence: Yambo Ouologeum as Marabout Novelist”

Book Reviews

Benedict O. Ushedo on:

David Jasper’s Readings in the Canon of Scripture: Written for Our Learning

Pheme Perkins on:

Ed. Walter J. Ong, SJ. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup, Faith and Contexts. Volume Three: Further Essays 1952-1990

Doug Thorpe on:

E.P. Thompson’s Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law
Jeanne Moskal’s Blake, Ethics, and Forgiveness

Erskine Peters on:

Dolan Hubbard’s The Sermon and the African American Literary Imagination
Kimberly Rae Connor’s Conversions and Visions in the Writings of African-American Women

Book Notices

Ann Astell, Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth
Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire
Carol J. Singley, Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit
Frederick K. Lang, Ulysses and the Irish God

27.3 (Published Autumn 1995)

Articles

William Kamowski, “Saint Erkenwald and then Inadvertent Baptism: An Orthodox Response to Heterodox Ecclesiology”
Didier Bertrand, “Order and Chaos in Paradise: Colonial and ‘Postcolonial’ Constructions of Regious Identity through the Robinson Crusoe Story”
John Sykes, “The Imperior Castaway: Walker Percy on Guilt and the Self”
Stephen R. Haybes, “Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson and Frederick Buechner: A Religious Reading of John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany”

Book Reviews

Stephen M. Fallon on:

Gale H. Carrithers, Jr. and James D. Hardy, Jr.’s Milton and the Hermeneutic Journey
Dayton Haskin’s Milton’s Burden of Interpretation
Michael Lieb’s Milton and the Culture of Violence
Jason P. Rosenblatt’s Torah and Law in Paradise Lost

Amy Hollywood on:

Ruth Y. Jenkins’ Reclaiming Myths of Power: Women Writers and the Victorian Spiritual Crisis
Kathryn Bond Stockton’s God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Iragaray, Brontë, and Eliot

David McCarthy Matzko on:

Ed. Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, Cultural Pluralism and Moral Knowledge
Ian S. Markham’s Plurality and Christian Ethics
Zygmunt Bauman’s Postmodern Ethics

Book Notices

Linda Munk, The Trivial Sublime: Theology and American Poetics
Ed. Richard Gameson, The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use

27.2 (Published Summer 1995)

Articles

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe, “Typology and After: A Taxonomy of Variants”
Stephen H. Webb, “The Rhetoric of and about Excess in William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience”
Richard Giannone, “Flannery O’Connor Tells Her Desert Story”
Harry Walsh, “Christian-Pagan Syncretism in Russian ‘Ruralist’ Prose”

Book Reviews

Sydney Stoyan on:

Ruth Roberts’ The Biblical Web
Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions

Maureen Boulton on:

Evelyn Birge Vitz’s Medieval Narrative and Modern Narratology: Subjects and Objects of Desire
Douglas Kelly’s The Art of Medieval French Romance

Carol Slade on:

Denise Nowakowski Baker’s Julian of Norwich’s Showings: From Vision to Book
Lynn Staley’s Margery Kempe’s Dissenting Fictions
Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff’s Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism

Book Notices

Christine L. Krueger, The Reader’s Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Soical Discourse
Kathleen Henderson Staudt, At the Turn of a Civilization: David Jones and Modern Poetics
Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Visions of Presence in Modern American Poetry
Michael Eric Dyson, Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X

27.1 Special Issue on African-American Literature (Published Spring 1995)

Articles

Historical Recovery

• Frances Smith Foster and Chanta Haywood, “Christian Recordings: Afro-Protestantism, Its Press, and the Production of African-American Literature”

• Joycelyn K. Moody, “On the Road with God: Travel and Quest in Early Nineteenth-Century African-American Holy Women’s Narratives”

Modern Literature

• Joseph A. Brown, SJ, “I, John, Saw the Holy Number: Apocalyptic Visions in Go Tell It on the Mountain and Native Son”

• Carol Henderson, “Knee Bent, Body Bowed: Re-Memory’s Prayer of Spiritual Re(new)al in Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain”

The Civil Rights Era and Its Aftermath

• Interview with Michael Eric Dyson, “Self-Reinvention, Spiritual Uplift, and The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X”

• Paulette Brown-Hinds, “In The Spirit: Dance as Healing Ritual in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow”

• Danielle Taylor-Guthrie, “Who Are the Beloved? Old and New Testaments, Old and New Communities of Faith”

Note: this special issue did not include book reviews

 

26.3 (Published Autumn 1994)

Articles

Michael Vander Weele, “Mother and Child in Paradiso 27”
Daniel Dombrowski, “Kazantzakis and the New Middle Ages”
Karl Martin, “Flannery O’Connor’s Prophetic Imagination”
Jean Sulivan (Joseph Cunneen, trans.), “Minor Writers / Authentic Words”

Book Reviews

Ralph C. Wood on:

Jon Lance Bacon’s Flannery O’Connor and Cold War Culture
Ruthann Knechel Johansen’s The Narrative Secrete of Flannery O’Connor: The Trickster as Interpreter
Anthony Di Renzo’s American Gargyles: Flannery O’Connor and the Medieval Grotesque

Book Notices

Margaret J. M. Ezell, Writing Women’s Literary History
Rudolph Binion, Love Beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth
Ann-Janine Morey, Religion and Sexuality in American Literature
Jean M. Humez, Mother’s First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion
Adrian Ceasar, Taking It Like a Man. Suffering, Sexuality, and the War Poets: Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Graves
Daniel Schenker, Wyndham Lewis, Religion and Modernism
Roger Lundin, The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World

26.2 (Published Summer 1994)

Articles

William Franke, “Dante’s Hermeneutic Rite of Passage: Inferno 9”
Michael J. Colacurcio, “Puritans in Spite”
Terence R. Wright, “The Letter and the Spirit: Deconstructing Renan’s Life of Jesus and the Assumption of Modernity”
Walter J. Ong, SJ, “Mimesis and the Following of Christ”

Book Reviews

Jacqueline Vaught Brogan on:

Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s Feminist Revision and the Bible
Ilana Pardes’s Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach

Joseph Cunneen on:

Robert McAfee Brown’s Persuade Us to Rejoice: The Liberating Power of Fiction
Bernard Harrison’s Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory
Frank Burch Brown’s Religious Aesthetics

Mary Gerhart on:

Mieke Bal’s Reading “Rembrandt”: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition
Ed. James H. Sanford, William R. LaFleur, and Masatoshi Nagatomi, Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan
Sabine MacCormack’s Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Per

Book Notices

Robert Con Davis, The Paternal Romance: Reading God-the-Father
Mary Theresa Kyne, S.C., Country Parsons, Country Priests: George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins as Spiritual Autobiographers
Gloria Flaherty, Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Douglas Thorpe, A New Earth: The Labor of Language in Pearl, Herbert’s Temple, and Blake’s Jerusalem
Edwin Sill Fussell, The Catholic Side of Henry James

26.1, Dancing at the Altar: American Indian Literature and Spirituality (Published Spring 1994)

Articles

Karl Kroeber, “Religion, Literary Art, and the Retelling of Myth”
Sandra Gustafson, “Nations of Israelites: Prophecy and Cultural Autonomy in the Writings of William Apess”
Joy Harjo, “Reconciliation, A Prayer”
Donelle R. Ruwe, “Weaving Stories for Food: an Interview with Joy Harjo”
Joy Harjo, “The Place the Musician Became a Bear on the Streets of a City”
Joy Harjo, “The Dawn Appears with Butterflies”
Linda Hogan, “A Different Yield”
Paula Gunn Allen, “Glastonbury Experience: Poem and Essay”
Gerald Vizenor, “Oshkiwiigan: Heartlines on the Trickster Express”
Susan Stanford Friedman, “Identity Politics, Syncretism, Catholicism, and Anishinabe Religion in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks”
Alan R. Velie, “The Return of the Native: The Renaissance of Tribal Religions as Reflected in the Fictions of N. Scott Momaday”

25.3 (Published Autumn 1993)

Articles

John Schad, “’Hostage of the Word’: Poststructuralism’s Gospel Intertext”
Felicia Bonaparte, “Daniel Deronda: Theology in a Secular Age”
Brian Conniff, “Auden, Niebuhr, and the Vocation of Poetry”

Book Reviews

Ann E. Berthoff on:

Floyd Merrell’s Sign, Textuality, World
Frank M. Oppenheim’s Royce’s Mature Ethics
Henry Samuel Levinson’s Santayana, Pragmatism and the Spiritual Life

Alicia Ostriker on:

Diane Lichtenstein’s Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers
Norma Rosen’s Accidents of Influence: Writing as a Woman and a Jew in America
Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

Patricia A. Ward on:

Tobin Siebers’s The Ethics of Criticism
Ed. Clarence Walhout and Leland Ryken, Contemporary Literary Theory: A Christian Appraisal
Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s Getting It Right: Language, Literature, and Ethics

Krysztof Ziarek on:

Susan Handelman’s Fragments of Redemption: Jewish Thought and Literary Theory in Benjamin, Scholem, and Levinas
Edith Wyschogrod’s Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy

Book Notices

Ruth Filmer, The Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror
Northrop Frye, ed. Robert D. Denham, The Eternal Act of Creation: Essays, 1979-1990
Mary Gerhart, Genre Choices, Gender Questions
Luce Irigaray, trans. Gillian C. Gill, Sexes and Geneaologies
Ed. David Jasper and R.C.D. Jasper, Language and the Worship of the Church
Eleanor J. McNees, Eucharistic Poetry: The Search for Presence in the Poetry of John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dylan Thomas and Geoffrey Hill
Ed. Wolf Z. Hirst, Byron, the Bible, and Religion

25.2, Violence, Difference, Sacrifice: Conversations on Myth and Culture in Theology and Literature (Published Summer 1993)

Articles

Rebecca Adams, “Violence, Difference, Sacrifice: A Conversation with René Girard”
Diana Culbertson, “Ain’t Nobody Clean: The Liturgy of Violence in Glory”
Andrew McKenna, “Pascal, Order and Difference”
Rebecca Adams, “Myth and Culture in Theology and Literature: A Conversation with John S. Dunner, C.S.C.”
Edith Wyschogrod, “Killing the Cat: Beauty and Sacrifice in the Novels of Genet and Mishima”
David Jasper, “’The Old Man Would Not So, But Slew His Son’: A Theological Meditation on Artistic Representation of the Sacrifice of Isaac”

25.1 (Published Spring 1993)

Articles

William Kamowski, “The Sinner Against the Scoundrels: The Ills of Doctrine and ‘Shrift’ in the Wife of Bath’s, Friar’s and Summoner’s Narratives”
Sheila A. Spector, “Blake’s Milton as Kabbalistic Vision”
Christopher Wise, “The Whatness of Loulou: Allegories of Thomism in Flaubert”
Nancy Clasby, “Dancing Sophia: Rahner’s Theology of Symbols”

Book Reviews

Mary Gerhart on:

Hans Urs von Balthasar’s The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics. Vol. 4. The Realm of Metaphysics in Antiquity
Hans Urs von Balthasar’s The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics. Vol. 5. The Realm of Metaphysics in the Modern Age
Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory. Vol. 1. Prologomena
Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory. Vol. 2. Dramatis Personae: Man in God

Albert C. Labriola on:

Anna K. Nardo’s The Lucid Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Michael C. Schoenfeldt’s Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship
Kate Gartner Frost’s Holy Delight: Typology, Numerology, and Autobiography in Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Paul Messbarger on:

Paul Giles’s American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics
Anita Gandolfo’s Testing the Faith: The New Catholic Fiction in America

Joan Leonard on:

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe’s Vocation and Identity in the Fiction of Muriel Spark
Jennifer Lynn Randisi’s On Her Way Rejoicing: The Fiction of Muriel Spar

Book Notices

Stephen D. Moore, Mark and Luke in Poststructuralist Perspectives: Jesus Begins to Write
Judith N. Garde, Old English Poetry in Medieval Christian Perspective: A Doctrinal Approach

22.2-3 (Summer-Autumn 1990)

Articles

• Nathan A Scott, Jr., “Steiner Interpretation”
• Patricia A. Ward, “Ethics and REcent Literary Theory: The Reader as a Moral AGent”
• David Lyle Jeffrey, “Mistakenly ‘Logocentric’: Centering Poetic Language in a Scriptural Tradition”
• James M. Keee, “‘Postmodern’ Thinking and the Status of the Religious”
• Susan Handelman, “Facing the Other: Levinas, Perelman and Rosenzweig”
• Gerald L. Bruns, “Dialogue and the Truth of Skepticism”
• Krzysztof Ziarek, “The Language of Praise: Levinas and Marion”
• Caryl Emerson, “Russian Orthodoxy and the Early Bakhtin”
• Anthony Ugolnik, “Textual Liturgics: Russian Orthodoxy and Recent Literary Criticism”
• Giles Gunn, “Faulkner’s Heterodoxy: Faith and Family in The Sound and the Fury”
• J. Hillis Miller, “Naming and Doing: Speech Acts in Hopkins’s Poems”
• René Girard, “The Crime and Conversion of Leontes in The Winter’s Tale”