20.1 (Spr. 1988) - 24.3 (Aut. 1992)
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
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”
21.2 (Summer 1989)
Articles
- Walter J. Ong, SJ, “T.S. Eliot and Today’s Ecumenism”
- Michel Despland, “To Interpose a Little Ease: Chateaubriand on Christianity and the Modern World”
- J.R. Goodall, “Theories of the Unheimliche and Rilke’s Phantom Hand
- Alan Jacobs, “Beyond Romanticism: Auden’s Choice of Tradition”
Book Reviews
- Thomas Jemielity on
- Philip Davis, In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler
- Nicholas Hudson, Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought
- T.R. Wright on
- Margaret R. Ellsberg, Created to Praise: The Language of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Jeffrey B. Loomis, Dayspring in Darkness: Sacrament in Hopkins
- Walter J. Ong, SJ., Hopkins, the Self, and God
- Kathleen Verduin on
- Lyndall Gordon, Eliot’s New Life
- Barbara Reynolds, The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Encounter with Dante
Book Notices
- René Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
- Willard J. Courtenay, Schools and Scholars in Fourth-Century England
- Lawrence Besserman, Chaucer and the Bible: A Critical Review of Research, Indexes, and Bibliography
- Gene Koppel, The Religious Dimension of Jane Austen’s Novels
21.1 (Spring 1989)
Articles
- Ronald L. Grimes, “Analogy and Ritualization: Baptism in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away”
- Janet L. Larson, “Margaret Atwood and the Future of Prophecy”
- Ted L. Estess, “Walker Percy’s Eschatological Fiction: A Reading of The Second Coming”
- John M. Neary, “‘Ah: Runs’: Updike, Rabbit, and Repetition”
- Will Soll, “Chaim Potok’s _Book of Lights: _Reappropriating Kabbalah in the Nuclear Age”
Book Reviews
- Sally Fitzgerald on:
- Edward Kessler, Flannery O’Connor and the Language of Apocalypse
- Bruce Marshall Gentry, Flannery O’Connor’s Religion of the Grotesque
- John F. Desmond, Risen Sons: Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of History
- Lawrence Cunningham on Robert Detweiler, Breaking the Fall: Religious Readings of Contemporary Fiction
20.3 (Autumn 1988)
Articles
- Brayton Polka, “The Critique of Poetry: Text, Philosophy, and the Bible”
- Thomas A Vogler, “Eighteenth-Century Logology and the Book of Job”
- Bernhard Radloff, “The Truth of Indirection and the Possibility of the Holy in Billy Budd”
- J. Gerland Janzen, “Reassessing Frost’s Fair Impression and his Mistrust”
- David Kaufmann, “Closure as Covenant: The Means Justify the End”
Book Reviews
- Anthony Low on:
- Donald R. Dickson, The Fountain of Living Waters: The Typology of the Waters in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne
- Chana Bloch, Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible
- Stanley Stewart, George Herbert
- William H. Pahlka, Saint Augustine’s Meter and George Herbert’s Will
- Sargent Bush, Jr. on:
- Horton Davies, Like Angels From a Could: The Metaphysical Preachers, 1588-1645
- Teresa Toulouse, The Art of Prophesying : New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief
20.2 (Summer 1988)
Articles
- Keith Fort, “Satire and Gnosticism”
- Jeanne Moskal, “Forgiveness, Love, and Pride in Blake’s The Everlasting Gospel”
- Colin Falck, “The ‘Identity’ of Poetry and Religion”
- Daniel Schenker, “Favoring the Divine: Wyndham Lewis’s The Human Age”
Book Reviews
- David Jasper on Robert Alter and Frank Kermode, eds., The Literary Guide to the Bible
- Sanford Schwartz on:
- Harriet Davidson, T.S. Eliot and Hermeneutics: Absence and Interpretation in The Waste Land
- Cleo McNelly Kearns, T.S. Eliot and Indic Traditions: A Study in Poetry and Belief
- William Skaff, The Philosophy of T.S. Eliot: From Skepticism to a Surrealistic Poetic, 1909-1927
- P.S. Sri, T.S. Eliot, Vedanta and Buddhism
Book Notices
- Ritchie D. Kendall, The Drama of Dissent: The Radical Poetics of Nonconformity, 1380-1590
- Margaret P. Hannay, ed., Silent But for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works
- Joanne Witke, William Blake’s epic: Imagination Unbound
- Jerome Taylor, In Search of Self: Life, Death and Walker Percy
20.1 (Spring 1988)
Articles
Introduction
- Issa J. Boullata, “Convention and Invention: Islamic Literature in Fourteen Centuries”
The Qur’an
- Fazlur Rahman, “Translating the Qur’an”
- Margaret Larkin, “The Inimitability of the Qur’an: Two Perspectives”
- Mustansir Mir, “The Qur’an as Literature”
Islamic Mysticism
- Annemarie Schimmel, “Mystical Poetry in Islam: The Case of Maulana Jalaladdin Rumi”
- Ali S. Asani, “Sufi Poetry in the Folk Tradition of Indo-Pakistan”
Modern Literature
- Trevor Le Gassick, “The Faith of Islam in Modern Arabic Fiction”
- Patrick D. Gaffney, “Magic, Miracle, and the Politics of Narration in the Contemporary Islamic Sermon”
- Miriam Cooke, “Prisons: Egyptian Women Writers on Islam”
Afterward
- Herbert Mason, “Impressions of an Arabic Poetry Festival”
Book Reviews
- Andreas Hamori on Maria Rosa Menocal, The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
- Issa J. Boullata on Abdullah al-Udhari, trans. and ed., Modern Poetry of the Arab World