Christianity & Literature is a member of CELJ, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Published quarterly, each issue contains peer-reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, poetry, and announcements. A searchable database of all articles, book reviews, and poetry published in Christianity & Literature is available on the journal's homepage at SAGE Journals here.
2018 LIONEL BASNEY AWARD
The Conference on Christianity and Literature is pleased to announce that Alexander J.B. Hampton (University of Toronto) is the recipient of the 2018 Lionel Basney Award for his essay “Post-secular Nature and the New Nature Writing,” which was published in a special issue on "The Secular and the Literary," guest edited by Colin Jager (Rutgers University), in Christianity & Literature, Volume 67, Issue 3 (June 2018).
JOURNAL STAFF
Editor
Mark Eaton
Azusa Pacific University
Associate Editors
Matthew J. Smith
Caleb D. Spencer
Azusa Pacific University
Book Review Editor
Philip Mitchell
Dallas Baptist University
Poetry Editor
Peter Cooley
Tulane University
Managing Editor
Katy Wright-Bushman
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Before submitting your work, please see our detailed Submission Guidelines.
ARTICLES/ESSAYS
Articles should be submitted electronically at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/christlit
The editors will make every effort to respond to all submissions within four months.
Any inquiries can be made to cal@apu.edu.
Mark Eaton, Editor
Christianity & Literature
Department of English
Azusa Pacific University
901 E. Alosta Ave.
Azusa, CA 91702-7000
POETRY
- Poetry submissions are accepted in hard copy form only. Please send all poetry submissions to:
- Peter Cooley, Poetry Editor
Christianity & Literature
Tulane University
Department of English, Norman Mayer 122
New Orleans, LA 70118 - Once accepted, you will be asked to submit your poem or poems to ScholarOne Manuscripts:
- https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/christlit
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Please be sure to include all relevant contact information along with poem or poems: name, address, and especially your email. Submissions will not be acknowledged or returned unless they are accompanied by a SASE (self addressed stamped envelope) with sufficient return postage.
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BOOK REVIEWS
The editors assign book reviews by invitation. If you would like to suggest a book for review or offer to write a book review, please write to Philip Mitchell at philipm@dbu.edu. If you are an author or publisher, please send books for review to:
Philip Mitchell, Book Review Editor
Christianity & Literature
Collins Learning Center 222
Dallas Baptist University
3000 Mountain Creek Parkway
Dallas, TX 25211
For detailed instructions, see Submission Guidelines or consult our complete guidelines at SAGE Journals here.
CURRENT ISSUE
Christianity & Literature Volume 68, Issue 3 (June 2019)
Special Issue: Poetics/Praxis
Guest Editor: Kimberly Johnson
Articles and Poems
Introduction: “‘Poetics/Praxis’: Materiality and the Meaningfulness of Experience,” Kimberly Johnson
Prologue: “Topsy-turvy,” Donald M. Friedman
“The Parson’s Country House Poem,” Andrea Crow
Poem: “Conception Abbey: Nodaway Co., Mo.,” G.C. Waldrep
“The Calvinist Couplet: Ralph Erskine’s Gospel Sonnets and the Espousal Poetics in Early Evangelicalism,” Wendy Raphael Roberts
Poem: “[For god’s],” Leslie Harrison
“‘In forgetting thou rememb’rest right’: Metaphor and Mis-devotion in John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets,” Tessie Prakas
Poem: “Crossing,” Jericho Brown
“Revised Versions: Poetry as Bible Reading in Three Modern Examples," David C. Mahan
“Birds of a Feather: George Herbert’s ‘Easter-wings,’” John Poch
Poem: “Infield Contrapuntal,” Meg Day
Afterword: “Holding Brokenness: Lyric Movements to and from,” Mary Szybist
Review Essay
David Lyle Jeffrey, “A Twenty-First Century Masterpiece: Micheal O’Siadhail, The Five Quintets”
Book Reviews
1. Albert Haley / Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Still Pilgrim: Poems
2. Nathan S. Rives / Kenneth A. Briggs, The Invisible Bestseller: Searching for the Bible in America
3. Caroline Bliss / Michael Giffin, Patrick White and God
4. David C. Mahan / Richard McLauchlan, Saturday’s Silence: R.S. Thomas and Paschal Reading
5. Richard E. Brantley / Helen Boyles, Romanticism and Methodism: The Problem of Religious Enthusiasm
6. Toby Coley / Clyde S. Kilby, ed., Arts and the Christian Imagination: Essays on Art, Literature, and Aesthetics
7. Steven Knepper / Michael Martin, The Incarnation of the Poetic Word: Theological Essays on Poetry & Philosophy, Philosophical Essays on Poetry & Theology
8. Stephen Barnes / Dana Gioia, 99 Poems: New and Selected
9. Paul J. Contino / Mark Knight, ed., The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion
PREVIOUS ISSUES
Christianity & Literature Volume 68, Issue 1 (December 2018)
Special Issue: Christianity and Chinese Literary Studies
Guest Editors: Sharon Kim and Chloë Starr
Sharon Kim and Chloë Starr, “Editors’ Preface: Why Chinese Theology and Literary Theory?”
Articles
1. Sharon Kim, “Introduction to Theory and Theology in Chinese Literary Studies: An Early Map”
2. Yang Huilin, “Matteo Ricci and Michel Foucault’s Readings of Epictetus: A Quest of ‘Zhi’ (知 Knowing) and ‘Xing’ (行 Application)”
3. Ping-cheung Lo, “The Making of a Literary-Theological Mind in China: The Early Thought of Yang Huilin in Context”
4. Susan Felch, “Secular and Post-secular in China and the West: A Response to Ping-cheung Lo”
5. Chin Kenpa, “The Image of Jesus in the writings of Zhang Shizhang (Hottinger S. C. Chang)”
6. Angelica Duran, “Chinese Christian Studies and Anglophone Literary Studies: A Response to Chin Kenpa’s “Chinese Marxist Biblical Criticism on Jesus: A Study on W.T. Chu (朱维之)”
7. Chloë Starr, “Shi Tiesheng and the Nature of the Human”
8. Zhang Longxi, “The Hermeneutic Circle, Textual Integrity, and the Validity of Interpretation”
9. David Jasper, “Reflections on the Maturity of Religion and Theology in Literature: A Cultural Dialogue”
David Lyle Jeffrey, “Afterword: ‘Scriptural Reasoning’ and Literary Method in China Today”
Poems
Rebecca Cantor, “The Woman at the Well”
Mary Romero Ferguson, "Prepositional Theology"
Nicholas Molbert, "Covenant with Knives"
Book Reviews
1. Fredrik Fällman / Liu Xiaofeng, Sino-Theology and the Philosophy of History: A Collection of Essays by Liu Xiaofeng.
2. Zhang Yunyan and Wang Huiping / On the Two Transformations of Bei Cun’s Writing on Faith
3. Naomi Thurston / Hong Liang, Life Before the Last Things: The Dostoyevsky-Reception in the Early Works of Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen(1915-1923)
4. Xiong Jingzhi / Zha Changping, Introduction to the Logic of the World-picture of the New Testament: The History-Logic of the New Testament, Vol. 1
5. Shi Xiao / Wenjun Luo, On the Translation and Introduction of Western Poetry by Protestant Missionaries in Late Qing and Early Republican China
6. Yen-Yi Lee / Wang Chen-Main, ed. China and Taiwan in the Writings of Missionaries
Christianity & Literature Volume 67, Issue 4 (September 2018)
Articles
1. Paul Thifault, “Native Americans and the Catholic Phase in Puritan Missionary Writing”
2. Patricia Marks, “An Iconic Image: Henry Ward Beecher in Puck Magazine”
3. John Peterson, “Wrestling with ‘Half Gods’: Biblical Discourse in Mary Austin’s The Ford”
4. Barry Stephenson, “The Christ of Kazantzakis’s Christ Recrucified”
5. Chad Schrock, “The Borderlands of Belief: Phil Rickman’s Merrily Watkins Mysteries”
Poems
Alex Mouw, “God in a Box” and “Giacometti’s Dog”
G.C. Waldrep, “Llanychaer Sonnet”
Carolyn Gelland, “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”
Cedric Rudolph, “The World’s Most Beautiful Blue” and “Grace”
Book Reviews
1. Malaika Favorite / Philip C. Kolin, Pilsen Snow
2. Malaika Favorite / Anya Krugovoy Silver, From Nothing: Poems
3. Norman W. Jones / Angelica Duran, The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries
4. Scott Crider / R. Chris Hassel, Shakespeare’s Religious Language: A Dictionary
5. Jonathon Lookadoo / Janet Brennan Croft, ed., Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World War I
6. M.W. Brumit / Jameson S. Workman, Chaucer and the Death of the Political Animal
IMAGO DEI
Read excerpts from the book, Imago Dei, featuring poetry from 60 years of Christianity & Literature.