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JOURNAL   Christianity & Literature is a scholarly journal devoted to the exploration of how literature engages Christian thought, experience, and practice. The journal presupposes no particular theological orientation but respects an orthodox understanding of Christianity as a historically defined religious faith. Contributions appropriate for submission should demonstrate a keen awareness of the author's own critical assumptions in addressing significant issues of literary history, interpretation, and theory.
  
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SPECIAL ISSUE: CALL FOR PAPERS

“Global Christianities and Global Literatures” 

Guest Editors: Cynthia R. Wallace (St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan) 

Description:

Religious practice has arguably declined in Euro-American contexts in late modernity, provoking intense debates about secularization, but Christian movements continue to grow in the Global South, giving rise to new modes of literary production. The cultural, social, and theological aspects of these religious and literary expressions throughout Latin and South America, Africa, and Asia complicate and challenge commonly held notions about the field of Christianity and literature, inviting a widened scope of scholarly engagement.

The journal Christianity & Literature welcomes paper proposals for a special issue on Global Christianities and Global Literatures to be guest edited by Cynthia R. Wallace (St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan). We welcome studies across geographical and national borders, Christian traditions, historical periods, literary genres, and languages. 

Possible topics include:

  • literature as a site of decolonization and/as religious enculturation
  • emerging literary devotional forms in a global context
  • Christian classics in global translation and performance
  • anthologies as a site of ecumenical communion
  • literary texts' interplay with postcolonial and other liberation theologies
  • interreligious, transnational, and cross-cultural encounters in literature and publishing
  • the literary intersections of race, gender, religion, and history
  • literatures of the Global South and the (post)secular
  • new approaches to postcolonial classics

 

We anticipate the following timeline:

  • 1 March 2023: abstracts due
  • 15 May 2023: essay drafts due for accepted abstracts
  • May - June 2023: first round of edits
  • July 2023: anonymous peer review
  • Fall or winter 2023: publication of the special issue

Please direct any questions, as well as abstract and paper submissions, to Cynthia Wallace (cwallace[at]stmcollege.ca).

 

SPECIAL ISSUE: CALL FOR PAPERS

“Christianity and African American Literature(s)—Convergences and Consequences” 

CALL FOR PAPERS for Special Issue: Christianity & Literature 

Guest Editors: Jennifer McFarlane-Harris (Seattle Pacific University), Peter Kerry Powers (Messiah University) 

 

Description: 

African American literary traditions are unimaginable apart from their engagement with and transformation of numerous Christian faith traditions. From the beginning, African American writers wrestled with the imposition and inheritance of Christianity and its attendant cultural and social formations, which directly contributed to and justified chattel slavery and its aftermath. However, Black writers and activists transmuted Christianity; a baser metal became a useful and precious one, shaped through political resistance, artistic development, and demands for social and moral reform. Making new tools out of the “master's tools” (to borrow Audre Lorde’s famous metaphor), African American authors effectively rebuilt the “master's house” of Christianity from both within and without. Developing distinctive cultural forms and genres, Black Americans have created a national literature that both embodies and wrestles with Christianity.

This special issue of Christianity & Literature calls for submissions that examine the literary and cultural inheritance(s) of Christianity in African American letters. Essays that take up any of the following issues are welcome. Examinations of contemporary developments in Black culture and experience are particularly encouraged.

  • Developing new theologies, epistemologies, aesthetics, or ways of reading using the tools of Christian traditions
  • African American literature and Christianity now—especially contemporary changes and challenges to a historic relationship
  • The changing shape of Christian figures as cultural icons in African American Literature (biblical, historical, political)
  • The Black Church as a site of literary practice and theological development
  • Christian faith, political and social action, appropriation, or accommodation
  • African American literature as index of progress, achievement, or racial uplift
  • Christianity as an oppressive force or a liberatory presence in Black lives
  • Genre criticism (poetic forms, jeremiad, slave/freedom narrative, the short story or novel, graphic novels)
  • Christianity and sexuality in African American Literature (desires, acts, practices; histories, activism), constructions of gender, and religious experience or sacred traditions
  • Christianity, Critical Race Theory and the social construction of race
  • Christianity and political conflicts over education (e.g., book bans, shaping AP curricula, The 1619 Project, teaching chattel slavery, national identity)
  • Christian practice as a source of authentic African American voice versus false consciousness
  • Christianity and African American secularism or atheism
  • Any other issue related to Christianity and African American literature

 

Deadline: Completed essays (6000-9000 words) due to Peter Powers (ppowers@messiah.edu) by September 1, 2023.   All essays should be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition.

Inquiries: Direct inquiries about the issue to either Peter Powers (ppowers@messiah.edu) or Jennifer McFarlane-Harris (mcfarlanehaj@spu.edu).

 

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JOURNAL STAFF

Editor
Mark Eaton, Azusa Pacific University, USA

Associate Editors
Matthew J. Smith, Hildegard College, USA
Caleb D. Spencer, Azusa Pacific University, USA

Book Review Editor
Philip Mitchell, Dallas Baptist University, USA

Poetry Editor
Peter Cooley, Tulane University, USA

Managing Editor
Katy Wright-Bushman

Editorial Advisory Board

Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame, USA

Lori Branch, University of Iowa, USA

Paul Contino, Pepperdine University, USA

John D. Cox, Hope College, USA

Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria, Canada

Lori Ann Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University, USA

Kevin Hart, University of Virginia, USA

David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School, USA

Peter S. Hawkins, Yale University, USA

Colin Jager, Rutgers University, USA

David Lyle Jeffery, Baylor University, USA

Janet Larson, Rutgers University, Newark, USA

Julia Reinhart Lupton, University of California, Irvine, USA

Susannah Monta, University of Notre Dame, USA

Maire Mullins, Pepperdine University, USA

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Christianity & Literature is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Published quarterly in March, June, September, and December, each issue contains articles, book reviews, and poems. Each submission is carefully evaluated by the editors. If the submission is deemed worthy of peer review, it is then sent to external reviewers in an anonymous, double-blind peer-review process. External reviewers are selected on the basis of their expertise in the fields or subject areas of each submission. The editors consider a submission only with the understanding that it has not been concurrently submitted elsewhere. Christianity & Literature is committed to a reasonable timeline for peer review. We expect to reach a decision on each submission within three to four months. In the case of unavoidable delays, the editors will attempt to communicate with authors.

Articles/Essay Submissions

Articles must be submitted electronically to ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online peer-review system used by Christianity & Literature.

Please submit your manuscript here or paste the following url address into your browser: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/christlit. 

All submissions must be formatted for blind peer review and should include:
• a title page with the author’s name, email, and mailing address.
• a 100-word abstract and a list of suggested keywords to accompany the essay: 3-5 is appropriate.
• a short biographical note with information about your position, research, and publications.
• the essay, with title on first page, and page numbers on all following pages. There should be no author identification in the body of the essay.

All articles submitted for publication should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, Notes only. By Notes only, we mean that you should include endnotes with full bibliographic information, but you do not also need to include a bibliography in addition to endnotes.

Articles of fewer than 4,000 or more than 9,000 words, including notes, are not ordinarily considered, unless they are commissioned for a special issue or of exceptional merit. Submissions should comply with accepted guidelines for nonsexist usage.

Information about the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, Notes only, is available here.

A Chicago Style Citation Quick Guide is also available here.

 

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

The poetry editor looks for poems that are clear and surprising. They should have a compelling sense of voice, formal sophistication (though not necessarily rhyme and meter), and the ability to reveal the spiritual through concrete images.

Only hard copies of poetry submissions are accepted. Submissions should be sent to: 

Peter Cooley, Poetry Editor
Christianity & Literature
Tulane University
Department of English, Norman Mayer 122
New Orleans, LA 70118

Please be sure to include all relevant contact information along with the poem or poems: name, address, and especially your email. Because of the volume of poetry received, submissions will not be acknowledged or returned unless they are accompanied by an SASE with sufficient return postage.

 

Book Reviews

The editors assign book reviews by invitation only. 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

 

 

CURRENT ISSUE
Christianity & Literature Volume 72, Issue 2 (June 2023)

Special Issue: Irish Writing

Guest Editor: Richard Rankin Russell, Baylor University

Richard Rankin Russell, "Introduction: Irish Writing"

Articles and Poems

1.    John F. Deane
“Of Human Flesh”

2.    Adrian Rice, Appalachian State University
“William Drennan and the Poetry of Presbytery”

3.     Martin Lockerd, Schreiner University
“George Moore and Decadent Antinatalism”

4.    Kelly Chittenden, Baylor University
“Through Joyce’s Looking Glass:  Joyce’s Dubliners and the Parable Form”

5.    Lee Oser, Holy Cross University
“Was C. S. Lewis a Christian Humanist?”

6.    Ian D’Alton
“‘Guests of the nation’? Southern Irish Protestant Identity through the Lens of Literature”

7.    The Revd. Dr. Robert Tobin
“‘Candles in the Sunshine’: The Protestant Ethos of Hubert Butler”

8.    Bryan Giemza, Texas Tech University  
“Birdman, Fly: A Reconsideration of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds and the Pre-Christian Cloak of the Sweeney Tales”

9.    Stephanie Pocock Boeninger, Providence College
“‘God's special men’: Missionaries in Brian Friel's Early Work”
10.    Richard Rankin Russell, Baylor University
“The Poet as Christian: Seamus Heaney and Irish Catholicism”

11.    Micheal O’Siadhail
“A Work Memoir”

12.     Joseph Heininger, Dominican University
“Representing Contemporary Life and Searching for the Sacred in Dennis O’Driscoll’s Poetry”

 
PREVIOUS ISSUES
Christianity & Literature Volume 72, Issue 1 (March 2023)

Articles

  1. Kathryn Margaret Walls, Victoria University of Wellington

“Calvin on Divine Authority and Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos”

  1. Christopher Lough, Gettysburg College

“John Ruskin in the Mountains: Sketches of a Sacramental Worldview”

  1. Steven Bembridge, independent scholar

“Sinclair Lewis’s Elmer Gantry: A Study of the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy”

  1. Ian Gibson, University of Waterloo

“Wishful Thinking: Loss and the Overcoming of Loss in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping”

Poetry

Robert Cording, “As Socrates Asked"

Book Reviews

  1. Fillippo Falcone, Milan University

National Reckonings: The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton’s England. By Ryan Hackenbracht. Cornell University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5017-3107-5. Pp. xviii + 213. $53.95.

  1. Benjamin Crace, independent scholar

T.S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal. By Joshua Richards. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2020. ISBN 978-90-04-37258-0. Pp. 182. $111 (cloth). ISBN 978-90-04-52013-4. $59 (paper). ISBN 978-90-04-37582-6. $111 (e-book).

  1. Martin George Holmes, University of Otago, New Zealand

Communion of Radicals: The Literary Christian Left in Twentieth-Century America. By Jonathan McGregor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0-8071-7582-8. Pp. viii + 256. $50.00.

  1. Ruth K. Lévai, University of Miskolc, Hungary

Christian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature. By Lee Oser. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. ISBN 9780813235103, eISBN 9780813235110. Pp. xiii + 285. $34.95.

  1. Samuel C. Still, University of Exeter

Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language. By Julia Kristeva. Translated by Joey Gladding. Foreword by Rowan Williams. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-0-231-20332-6. Pp. xxviii + 84. $20.00.

  1. M. Moore, The Fellowship of Ailbe

All That Will Be New. By Paul Mariani. Seattle: Slant Books, 2022. ISBN 978-1-63982-112-9. Pp. xii+70. $14.00.

  1. M. Moore, The Fellowship of Ailbe

The One Certain Thing. By Peter Cooley. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0-88748-666-1. Pp. 73. $15.95.

  1. Amanda E. Himes, John Brown University

Resisting the Marriage Plot: Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft. By Darlene Joy Fisher. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press Academic, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-8308-5071-6. Pp. x + 260. $30.00.

  1. Jesse Russell, Georgia Southwestern State University

Eliot after the Wasteland. By Robert Crawford. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2022. ISBN: 978-0374279462. Pp. ix + 609. $40.00.

 
Christianity & Literature Volume 71, Issue 4 (December 2022)

Forum on Christian Poetics

David Mahan, Rivendell Institute, Yale University

“Introduction: Forum on Christian Poetics”

  1. Christina Bieber Lake, Wheaton College

“Seeing the Form: Denise Levertov’s ‘The Jacob’s Ladder’”

  1. Jack Dudley, Mount St. Mary’s University

“Teach Us to Care”

  1. Kimberly Johnson, Brigham Young University

“‘wrapt IN flesh’: An Encounter with Christian Poetics”

  1. Mark Knight, Lancaster University

“Father Brown, Charity, and Christian Contributions to Critique”

  1. Abram Van Engen, Washington University in Saint Louis

“Wonder and Care: A Christian Poetics for the Present Day”

Articles

  1. Matthew Wickman, Brigham Young University

On Christian Spirituality and Literary Criticism, or, Postsecularity after R. S. Thomas

  1. Joshua B. Tuttle, Pennsylvania State University

“Toward a Practical Definition of Theopoetical Poetry”

  1. Haein Park, Biola University

“Sentimentalism, Realism, and Secularity in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth”

  1. Josephine Gabelman, The Hexagon House

“Chesterton’s Decadent Theology: Redeeming Sin with Oscar Wilde”

  1. Jonathan Sircy, Southern Wesleyan University

“’Hiding in Plain Sight’: Seeing and Forgetting Reality in David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion

Poetry

Mark D. Bennion, “Every Whit”

Book Reviews

  1. Mark D. Bennion, Brigham Young University, Idaho

Somewhere to Follow: Poems. By Paul J. Willis. Eugene, OR: Slant, 2022. ISBN 1-7252-5695-8. Pp.1-100. $12.00.

  1. Paul J. Willis, Westmont College

A Poetics of Orthodoxy: Christian Truth as Aesthetic Foundation.  By Benjamin P. Myers.  Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020.  ISBN 978-1-5326-9546-9.  Pp. xii + 128.  $19.00.

  1. Lynn R. Szabo, Trinity Western University

Forgotten Futures: A Memoir. By Bonnie Thurston. Cardiff, Wales:  Cinnamon Press, 2021.  ISBN 978-1-78864-131-9.  Pp. 34.  $19.95.Not Sonnets: Observations from an Ordinary Life. By Bonnie Thurston. Cardiff, Wales:  Cinnamon Press, 2022.  ISBN 978-1-78864-128-9. Pp. 90.  $25.54.

  1. Edward H. Henderson, Louisiana State University

The Shared Witness of C. S. Lewis and Austin Farrer: Friendship, Influence and an Anglican Worldview. By Philip Irving Mitchell. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-60635-417-9. Pp. xix + 287. $55.00.

  1. Laura Creekmore, Louisiana State University

Romanticism and the Re-Invention of Modern Religion: The Reconciliation of German Idealism and Platonic Realism. By Alexander J. B. Hampton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1108429443. Pp. ix + 253. $120.95.

 
Christianity & Literature Volume 71, Issue 3 (September 2022)

Articles

  1. Paul Olson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“William Shakespeare’s All Is True, Lord Chamberlain’s ‘Truth,’ and Civil Religion”

  1. Erica Ridderman, Duke University

“‘Goddes Visitacion’: Human Suffering and Divine Agency in Calvin and Herbert” 

  1. Benjamin Crace, American University of Kuwait

“The Critical Significance of T.S. Eliot’s Mystical-Erotic Integration”

  1. Adam Barton, independent scholar

“The Poetics of Conversion: Theological Themes in the Poetry of W.H. Auden”

  1. Jin Li and Li Ma, Calvin University

"Reversed Conversion, Theodicy, and Cross-cultural Mission in Shūsaku Endō's Silence and Zhenyun Liu's Someone to Talk To"

  1. Shinji Takagi, Osaka University

“The Absurdity of the Ordinary: Exploring the Joban Theme in Ayako Sono’s Mumeihi”

  1. Derek Witten, Duke University

“Two Stigmatas in Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstasy”

Poetry

Stephen Kampa, “The Cycle”

Ken Fontenot, "Glory Be" and "What Spirit”

Sarah Gordon, “Sur l’existence éphèmère”

Review Essay

Philip Irving Mitchell, Dallas Baptist University

"A Quest for Coherence: T. S. Eliot as Public Intellectual"

The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition. 8 volumes. Eds. Jewell Spears Brooker, Ronald Schuchard, et al. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014-2019.

Book Reviews

  1. Zachary Meckley, University of Dallas

The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins. By Aakanksha Virkar Yates. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-09390-4. Pp. 190. $49.95.

  1. Jody Grimes, Dallas Baptist University

Reading Old English Biblical Poetry: The Book and the Poem in Junius 11. By Janet Schrunk Ericksen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.ISBN 978-1-4875-0746-6. Pp. x + 222. $65.00.

  1. Luke William, independent scholar

Toward a Sacramental Poetics. Eds. Regina M. Schwartz and Patrick J. McGrath. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0-268-20149-4. Pp. vi + 297. $60.00.

  1. Rachel Griffis, Texas A&M International University

A Bloody and Barbarous God: The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy. By Petra Mundik. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0-8263-6334-3. Pp. 426. $34.95.

  1. Maire Mullins, Pepperdine University

Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism.  By Alda Balthrop-Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-108-83510-7.  Pp. xxiii  + 308. $76.12.

6. Philip Irving Mitchell, Dallas Baptist University

T.S. Eliot and Organicism. By Jeremy Diaper. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-80085-961-8. Pp. xiii + 218. $44.95.

 
Christianity & Literature Volume 71, Issue 2 (June 2022) 

Special Issue: Marilynne Robinson after Jack

Guest Editors: Abram Van Engen, Washington University, and Caleb D. Spencer, Azusa Pacific University

Caleb D. Spencer, Azusa Pacific University

“Introduction: Marilynne Robinson after Jack”

Articles

  1. Christopher Leise, Whitman College

“Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Long Puritanism’ and Forms of Structural Racism”

  1. Abram Van Engen, Washington University

“Della’s Rage: Race and Religion in Marilynne Robinson’s Jack”

  1. Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria

“Christian White Supremacy in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels”

  1. Patricia Brown, Azusa Pacific University

“What’s Love Got To Do With It?: Christianity, Africanism, and Privilege in Marilynne Robinson’s Jack”

  1. Ray Horton, Murray State University

“Seeing in ‘the darkness, visible’: White Supremacy and Original Sin in Marilynne Robinson’s Jack”

  1. James K.A. Smith, Calvin University

“Making the Truth: Fiction as Theology in Marilynne Robinson’s Jack”

  1. Marilynne Robinson, Caleb D. Spencer, and Abram Van Engen

“Interview: Robinson on Robinson After Jack”

Poetry

Leslie Shiel, "Sisters of the Visitation"

Book Reviews

  1. Joey Jekel, Founders Classical Academy of Frisco

Cormac McCarthy in Context. Edited by Stephen Frye. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-108-48883-9. Pp. xxiv + 386. $125.00.

  1. Casie Dodd, University of St. Thomas, Houston

The Selected Letters of John Berryman, Edited by Philip Coleman and Calista McRae. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-674-97625-2. Pp. 726. $39.95.

  1. Rachel B. Griffis, Texas A&M International University

Marilynne Robinson, Theologian of the Ordinary. By Andrew Cunning. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. ISBN 978-1-5013-5899-9. Pp. viii + 197. $77.00.

  1. Drew Santa, Carnegie Mellon University

Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. By Christina Bieber Lake. Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. ISBN978-0-268-10625-6 (Hardback). Pp. 212. $45.00.

  1. Hannah Rogers, University of Dallas

The Decline of the Novel. By Joseph Bottum. South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-58731-198-7. Pp. 153. $25.00.

  1. Makayla B. Jenkins, Louisiana State University

Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. By Winter Jade Werner. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-8142-1426-8. Pp. vii + 210.

  1. Christopher Flavin, Northeastern State University

God’s Patients: Chaucer, Agency, and the Nature of Laws. By John Bugbee. South Bend: Notre Dame University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-268-10445-0. Pp. xxii+478. $55.00.

 
Christianity & Literature Volume 71, Issue 1 (March 2022) 

Articles

  1. Molly Porter, University of Washington

“’A Curious Pattern Like a Tree’: Edenic Death and Life in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”

  1. Annesley Anderson, independent scholar

“Modernism’s Missing Myth: A Reception History of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory”

  1. Sean Benson, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

“Salvation, Doom, and Romans 8 in Alan Paton’s Too Late the Phalarope”

  1. Timothy R. Vande Brake, Roberts Wesleyan College

“Wole Soyinka's Christian Moment: 1958-1965”

  1. Martin Brick, Ohio Dominican University

“It Skips a Generation: Spirituality in David Foster Wallace and James Joyce”

  1. Robert Don Adams, Florida Atlantic University

“Patricia Highsmith’s Surprising Knight of Faith”

Poetry

Bonnie Thurston, “Something Might Be”

Book Reviews

  1. M. Moore, The Fellowship of Ailbe, Williston, VT

Abundance: New & Selected Poems. By Andrew Lansdown. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2020. ISBN 978-1-7252-8457-9. Pp. xvi+225. $25.00.

  1. Leslie Clinton, independent scholar

Litany of Flights. By Laura Reece Hogan. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-64060-610-4. Pp. 83. $20.00.

  1. Kimberly D. Arnold, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

The Hymnal: A Reading History. By Christopher N. Phillips. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. ISBN 1-4214-2592-0. Pp. xv + 252. $35.

  1. Monica Weis, SSJ, Nazareth College

Saint Mary of Egypt: A Modern Verse Life and Interpretation. By Bonnie B. Thurston. Collegeville MN: Liturgical Press, 2021. ISBN 798-0-87907-116-5. Pp. vii + 120. $15.95.

  1. Anna Genneken, Collin College

The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature: Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings. By Alison M. Jack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-881729-1. Pp. 177. $82.00.

  1. Angelica Duran, Purdue University

Literature and Religion: A Dialogue between China and the West. By David Jaspar and Ou Gaung-an. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2020. ISBN 978-1532652189 . Pp. xi + 186.  $24.00.

  1. Peter Spaulding, Marquette University

Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost. By Tzachi Zamir. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0190695088. Pp. x + 216. $86.55.

 

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