2020s
55.1 John Henry Newman: Reading the Times (Spring 2023)
Articles:
Michael D. Hurley & Rebekah Lamb, “Introduction”
Cyril O’Regan, “Newman as a Critic of Modernity”
Christopher M. Wojtulewicz, “The Coincidence of Opposites in John Henry Newman According to Eric Przywara, S. J.”
Rebekah Lamb, “The Marian Turn in Newman’s Idea of History”
Guy Nicholls, C. O., “Newman’s ‘Idea’ of the Beautiful”
Stephen Tardif, “Newman’s Illative Aesthetics; or, How to Philosophize with the Grammar”
Giuseppe Pezzini, “Newman on Art, Imagination, and the Classics: Callista Revisited”
Anne Carpenter, “A Living Rule: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Illative Sense”
Michael D. Hurley, “The Shattered Majesty of Newman’s Spontaneous Style”
Short Reflections:
His Majesty King Charles III, “John Henry Newman: The Harmony of Difference”
Rev. Dr. Ian Ker, “Was John Henry Newman a Conservative or a Liberal?”
Sr. Catherine Joseph Droste, O. P., “Of Religion and First Principles”
Rev. Fr. Philip Cleevely, C. O., “The Most Religiously Attuned of Our Powers: Newman on the Conscience”
Leonie Caldecott, “Understanding the Heart of Newman: Meriol Trevor”
The Rt. Revd. and Rt. Hon. Dr. Rowan Williams, “What Will ‘Bear Our Weight’: Newman on the Integrative Method”
54.3 (Autumn 2022)
Articles:
Esra Santesso, “Halal Fiction and Female Agency”
Christopher Iacovetti, “‘Entering Into God’s Point of View’: Marilyn McCord Adams and Marilynne Robinson on the Practice of Christian Forgiveness”
Brandon Schneeberger, “The Eighth Day: A Liturgical Reading of The Man Who Was Thursday”
John Peterson, “‘Ten Lamps of Fire’: Transforming the Darkness in Mary Oliver’s Thirst”
Ayşe Naz Bulamur, “Women as Boundary Markers between Islam and Secularism in Julia Kristeva’s Murder in Byzantium (2004) and Elif Şafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul (2007)”
Molly Robey, “World Religions and the College Girl: Secularism and New Womanhood in Elizabeth W. Champney’s Three Vassar Girls Series”
Jordan Burke, “Last Tango in Belle Isle: Walker Percy, Cinéma Vérité, and New Language”
Book Reviews
Tristan Kay on Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and its Moral Contexts by George Corbett
Rosemary Williams on Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante’s Commedia by Helena Phillips-Robins
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton on Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages by Arvind Thomas
Phillip J. Donnelly on Milton and the Parables of Jesus: Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings by David V. Urban
Clive Holmes on A History of American Puritan Literature edited by Kristina Bross and Abram Van Engen
Laura Dassow Walls on A Language of Things: Emanuel Swedenborg and the American Environmental Imagination by Devin P. Zuber
Sarah Rivett on The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature by Giles Gunn
Mark Chapman on Unearthly Beauty: The Aesthetic of St John Henry Newman by Guy Nicholls, Cong. Orat.
Drishadwati Bargi on The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-diasporic Literature by Anne Margaret Castro
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado on Drawing on Religion: Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels by Ken Koltun-Fromm
Kimberly Beek on David Mitchell’s Post-Secular World: Buddhism, Belief and the Urgency of Compassion by Rose Harris-Birtill
54.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022)
Articles
Marta Cerezo, “Charles William Stubbs and Shakespeare: The Incarnation and the English Cult of Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Yun Ni, “The Buddha’s Shadow and God’s Flesh: Image and Anti-Image in Huiyuan and Julian of Norwich”
Jessica Hines, “Forming Pity: Responses to Suffering in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
Rachana Rao Umashankar, “‘Horseshoes on the Fire: The Praxis of Movement and Journey in the Poetry of Sufi Islam”
Tomasz Dekert, “Mikhail Bulgakov’s Azazello, Behemoth and Abadonna, Viewed Against the Background of Their Onomastic Prototypes”
Tommy Pfannkoch, “Prospero’s Coercive Forgiveness”
Darragh Greene, “Substaunce Into Accident”: Transubstantiation and Relics in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale”
Sonia Fanucchi “Re-Membering History: Allegory as Sacrament in Inferno’s Prologue Scene”
Margaret Marion Gower, “Glorifying God: The Theological Notion of Women in Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la Cité des Dames”
Book Reviews
Ben Dewar on The Laws of Hammurabi: At the Confluence of Royal and Scribal Traditions by Pamela Bartash
Brian Muhs on The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt edited by Alan Bowman and Charles Crowther
Robyn A. Bartlett on Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer by Sebastian Langdell
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich on A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London by Scott Oldenburg
Jaime Goodrich on The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture: From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn by Gary Waller
Richard A. Bailey on Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England by Elisabeth Ceppi
Thomas Gaiton Marullo on Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the Karamazovs by Paul Contino
Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley on Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Winter Jade Werner
Paul Robichaud on David Jones on Religion, Politics, and Culture: Unpublished Prose edited by Thomas Berenato, Anne Price-Owen, and Kathleen Henderson Staudt
Jahdiel Perezon on Christianity and the Triumph of Humor: From Dante to David Javerbaum by Bernard Schweizer
Daniel Shank Cruz on Field Language: The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Christopher Reed, and Joyce Henri Robinson
Michael F. Miller on David Foster Wallace and Religion: Essays on Faith and Fiction edited by Michael McGowan and Martin Brick
53.3 (Autumn 2021)
Articles
Einat Davidi, “Martin Buber's Elijah and the Tradition of Spanish Baroque Drama”
Ayat Agah, “Rereading a Life: Forugh Farrokzad as a Poet of the Sacred and the Self”
Michael Ratnapalan, “Missionary Christianity and Culture in Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Beach of Falesa’”
Chen Houliang, “‘My Dharma…Was That of the Householder’: ‘Ethic of the Householder’ in Oxherding Tale”
Ann Astell, “Compunction and Conversion in Henry James’ ‘The Altar of the Dead’”
Matt Helm, “Discerning Love, Recuperating Hope: ‘The Search for God’ in Carson McCullers’ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”
Book Reviews
Jacob Riyeff on Reading Old English Biblical Poetry: The Book and the Poem in Junius 11 by Janet Shrunk Ericksen
Marjorie Harrington on The Sacred and the Sinister: Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic edited by David J. Collins, S.J.
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. on After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews by Susan L. Einbinder
Ambra Moroncini on The Grace of the Italian Renaissance by Ita Mac Carthy
David Lummus on The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso by Andrea Moudarres
Jillian M. Snyder on Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God by Anthony D. Baker
Larry D. Bouchard on A Literary History of Reconciliation: Power, Remorse and the Limits of Forgiveness by Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
David Hall on Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination by Kenyon Gradert
Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook on Anglican Women Novelists: From Charlotte Brontë to P. D. James edited by Judith Maltby and Alison Shell
Melissa Weininger on Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies by Sheila E. Jelen
Craig Woelfel on Fault Lines of Modernity: The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature edited by Kitty Millet and Dorothy Figueira
53.2 (Summer 2021)
Articles
Maria Lichtmann, "Mary and the Eternal Feminine in the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins"
Anne Carpenter, "Not America’s Nightmare: Hans Urs von Balthasar, Janelle Monáe, and Aesthetic Form"
George Rosso, "The Lamb’s New Song: Apocalypse in Early British Hymnody"
Thomas Breedlove, "Absence and Presence: The Unfinished Language of John Donne’s ‘Resurrection, imperfect'"
Brett Roscoe, "Making God’s Word: Manuscript Production, Nature, and the Bible in The Secret of Kells and Exeter Book Riddle 26"
Don Adams, "You’re Screwing Yourself: Jim Thompson’s Unlikely Levinasian Prophecy"
Book Reviews
Don Michael Hudson on The ‘Geometrics’ of the Rahab Story: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Joshua 2 by Andrezej Toczyski SDB
Michelle Ephraim on The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative by Efraim Sicher
Claire Taylor Jones on Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond by Bettina Bildhauer
Natalia Khomenko on Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide by Jay Zysk
Lowell Gallagher on Retelling the Siege of Jerusalem in Early Modern England by Vanita Neelakanta
Kim Hedlin on The Biblical Covenant in Shakespeare by Mary Jo Kietzman
Peter Cheyne on Romanticism and the Re-Invention of Modern Religion: The Reconciliation of German Idealism and Platonic Realism by Alexander J. B. Hampton
Emily McConkey on Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith by Emma Mason
Carole M. Cusack on Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture edited by Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard
John Burt on Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination by Farrell O’Gorman
Robert Wexelblatt on When Fiction and Philosophy Meet: A Conversation with Flannery O’Connor and Simone Weil by E. Jane Doering and Ruthann Knechel Johansen
Shira Wolosky on The Bible in the American Short Story by Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and Peter S. Hawkins
52.3-53.1 Double Issue (Autumn 2020-Spring 2021)
Articles
Blake Allen, "Coleridge’s Metaphysics of Beauty"
Susan L. Haskins, "The Construction of a Goddess: Isis in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses"
Nicoletta Asciuto, "Light and Mystical Writing: T. S. Eliot’s Poetic Practice in Four Quartets"
Patrick McGrath, "Andrew Marvell’s 'A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure': Asceticism and the Plain Style"
Todd Anderson, "The Reception of Milton’s Satan in C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra"
Michael Sanders, "Mettānoia in Thomas Pynchon’s Buddhist Trilogy"
Forum
Irish American Literature, edited by Christopher Cusack
Christopher Cusack, "Religion and Cultural Identity in Irish American Literature"
Book Reviews
Carl Springer on Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry by Philip Hardie
Chris Vinsonhaler on The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton by Kathy Lavezzo52.2 Spring 2020 (published Summer 2020)
Articles
Gabriel Rieger, "'Give me your hand and say you will be mine': Containing Catholicism in Thomas Middleton’s Measure for Measure"
Asher Gelzer-Govatos, "'A Sensuous Embodiment': Sacramental Poetics in T. S. Eliot’s Ariel Poems"
Patricia Patrick, "'You learn me Noble Thankfulness': Restoring a Graceful Cycle of Giving and Receiving in Much Ado About Nothing"
Jarica Linn Watts, "Of Dashes, Gashes, and Wounds: Radclyffe Hall and the Medieval Devotion of 'Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself'"
Mary Jo Kietzman, "Othello: Shakespeare’s Realistic Samson"
Christina Iluzada, "How to Respond to New Atheists: Learning How to View the Material World, Knowledge, and Mystery from Seventeenth-Century Poet Lucy Hutchinson"
Book Reviews
David Torollo on Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in Medieval Mediterranean by Jonathan Decter
Noëlle Phillips on Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology by Curtis A. Gruenler
Norm Klassen on God’s Patients: Chaucer, Agency, and the Nature of Laws by John Bugbee
Richard C. McCoy on Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare edited by Katherine Steele Brokaw and Jay Zysk
Elizabeth Fenton on Susanna Rowson: Sentimental Prophet of Early American Literature by Steven Epley
Richard E. Brantley on Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America by Brett Malcolm Grainger
Octavian Gabor on Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self by Yuri Corrigan
Stephen Prickett on Scotland’s Forgotten Treasure: The Visionary Romances of George MacDonald by Colin Manlove
Terry Gifford on Ted Hughes and Christianity by David Troupes
Maeera Y. Shreiber on Like a Dark Rabbi: Modern Poetry and the Jewish Literary Imagination by Norman Finkelstein
Maxwell Kennel on Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community by Daniel Shank Cruz
Sara Judy on Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering by Cynthia R. Wallace