2020s

56.1 (Spring 2024)

Articles:

Małgorzata Grzegorzewska, “King Lear and Absolute Tragedy: Shakespeare, von Balthasar, and Marion on Love, Sacrifice, and Forgiveness”

Ben Wiebracht and Amir Tevel, “Tennyson and the Troubled Manliness of Victorian Doubt”

Joshua Brorby, “Dialects of Faith: Pluralism and Poetic Translation in F. Max Müller’s Sacred Books of the East”

Susan Edmunds, “Karmic Reckonings: White Noise, Becker, and the Bardo Thödol”

Anne Margaret Castro, “Performing Love and Imagining Grace in the Print and Audio Editions of Toni Morrison’s Beloved”

Burkhard Conrad, “What an Odd Couple: Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard”

Peter Buchanan, “‘Into a Litel Oxes Stalle’: Grace and Fortune in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale”

Christopher Douglas, “Apocalypse Without End: Christian Right Politics and Affect in Frank Peretti’s This Present Darkness”

Judith Wolfe, “The Eschatological Imagination in Literature”

Book Reviews:

Tirumular (Drew) Narayanann on Mapping Medieval Identities in Occitanian Song by Rachel May Golden

Ian Johnson on Fifteenth-Century Lives: Writing Sainthood in England by Karen A. Winstead

Mollie Bowman on Christian Identity, Piety, and Politics in Early Modern England by Robert E. Stillman

Colin Azariah-Kribbs on Words Made Flesh: Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism by Sean Dempsey

Caroline R. Batten on The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism edited by Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner

Peter Wirzbicki on Emerson and Other Minds: Volume One, Idealism and the Moral Self and Emerson and Other Minds: Volume Two, Idealism and the Lonely Subject by Michael Colacurcio

Lindsay Marie Ceballos on The Karamazov Case: Dostoevsky’s Argument for His Vision by Terrence W. Tilley

Scott Annett on The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest by Karl Plank

Matthew Ichihashi Potts on In a Vision of the Night: Job, McCarthy, and the Challenge of Chaos by Philip S. Thomas

Linda Freedman on Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World edited by Andrew W. Hass

 

55.2-3 (Summer-Autumn 2023)

Articles:

Sára Tóth, “The Return of Ruth: Loss and (Heavenly) Restoration in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Lila”

Joanna Klara Teske, “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel by Salman Rushdie: A Postmodern New Atheist Novel

Makayla C. Steiner, “‘Someday She Would Tell Him What She Knew’: the Nature of Belief in Marilynne Robinson's Lila”

Ryan Siemers, “Desecularizing the Novel: Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier and Good Confession”

Zhao Ng, “Songs of Love and Loss: Mina Loy's Lyric Theodicy”

Anat Koplowitz-Breier, “‘Me Too, Dinah, Me Too’: Jewish American Women’s Midrash-Poems on the Rape of Dinah”

Jonathan Ivry, “‘Loyalty to myself at the very least’: Historical, Religious, and Narrative Commitments in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead”

Curtis Gruenler, “‘On Fairy Stories’ as a Theory of Literature: Tolkien Meets Ricœur and Girard on the Field of Myth”

J. Jeffrey Franklin, “H. G. Wells and the Future of God”

Sarah Buchmeier, “‘That Dreadful Heaven’: Secularism Post Postsecularism”

Adolphus Amaefule, “‘My God tells me’ and ‘My Bible says’: Nigerian Pentecostalism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah”

Jeanne Petrolle, “Prophesying War: Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and The Book of Isaiah”

Book Reviews:

Paul J. Contino on Incomprehensible Certainty: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge by Thomas Pfau

Melissa Ridley Elmes on Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, and John Van Engen

Marla Lunderberg on Gifts & Graces: Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan by David Gay

Miriamne Ara Krummel on Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews by Jay Geller

Kyle Garton-Gundling on A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection by Avram Alpert

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"

52.2 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