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JOURNAL STAFF
Editor
Darren J.N. Middleton, Baylor University, USA
Book Review Editor
Sarah Berry, University of Dallas, USA
Poetry Editor
Peter Cooley, Tulane University, USA
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:
Darren J.N. Middleton, Editor-in-chief
Christianity & Literature
Professor of Literature and Theology
Draper Academic Building 246.25
One Bear Place #97350
Waco, TX 76708-7350
Telephone: (254) 710-7323
Email: Darren_Middleton@baylor.edu
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.
Once accepted, you will be asked to submit your book review to ScholarOne Manuscripts here.
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 the Book Review Editor below. If you are an author or publisher, please send books for review to:
Sarah Berry, Book Review Editor
Christianity & Literature
Assistant Professor of English
Braniff Graduate Building #120
University of Dallas
1845 E. Northgate Drive
Irving, Texas 75062-4736
Phone: (972) 721-5246
Email: sberry@udallas.edu
CURRENT ISSUE
Christianity & Literature Volume 73, Issue 4 (December 2024)
Articles
1. Ryan J. Stark, Corban University
The Balaam Allusions in Tristram Shandy, Volume 7
2. Alexander Burdge, The Academy of Classical Christian Studies
The Matter of Britain: David Jones’ Incarnational Geography
3. Jessica Ann Hughes and Brooks Lampe, George Fox University
The “Supposed Fact” of Christ: Agency and Faith in Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean
4. Christopher Petter, Howard University
Richard Wilbur’s Figures of Poetic Creation
5. Christopher Giroux, Saginaw Valley State University
In the Garden, in the Zoo: Playing with Roman Catholic Tropes in Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Poetry
Josh Dugat, “The Welder”
Gina Ferrara, “Globe”
Jeanne Foster, “3 A.M. in the Pandemic” and “A January Night”
Alan Williamson, "Aftermath (2021)" and "Naomi"
Review Essay
Haein Park, Biola University
Between Aesthetic and Historical Vision: Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel
Book Reviews
1. Alex Engebretson, Baylor University
Reading Genesis. By Marilynne Robinson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. ISBN 9780374299408. Pp. 3 + 344. $29.00.
2. Yifan Zhang, Baylor University
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burden of History. Lynne W Hinojosa. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 978-1-032-15536-4. Pp 205.
3. Mary Wyatt, University of Florida
Dante’s Vita nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation. With the original Italian text and a new English translation of the Vita nuova. By William Franke. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-316-51617-1. 244 pp.
4. Christopher Flavin, Northeastern State University-Tahlequah
The Book of Kells, A Masterwork Revealed: Creators, Collaboration, and Campaigns. By Donncha MacGabhann. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022. Pp. 324. ISBN 978-9464261233. $73.00.
5. Caitlyn Harris, Caitlyn Harris, Northeastern State University-Tahlequah
Reluctant Allies: Essays on Eliot and the Inklings. By Fr. Dwight Longenecker. Stauffer Books, 2020. ISBN 978-0-9862713-4-2. Pp. 1 + 199.
6. Ben Wiebracht, Stanford Online Hight School, Stanford University
Fashionable Goodness: Christianity in Jane Austen’s England. By Brenda Cox. Tucker, GA: Topaz Cross Books, 2022. ISBN 979-8986601601. Pp. x + 388. $25.00.
7. C. Myles Roberts, Baylor University
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference. By Dennis Taylor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. ISBN 978-1666902082. Pp. xiv + 479. Hardback $145.00 (£112.00); Paperback $46.99 (£36.00) ISBN 978-1666902105; eBook $45.00 (£35.00).
8. Joshua Rawleigh, Indiana University
Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age: The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic. By Deryl Davis. New York: Routledge, 2024. ISBN 978-1-03-252310-1. Pp. xxxii + 240. $152.00.
9. Holly Wiegand, Boston University
George Eliot: Whole Soul. By Ilana M. Blumberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. ISBN 978-0-192-84509-2. Pp. ix + 230. $40.00.
PREVIOUS ISSUES
Christianity & Literature Volume 73, Issue 3 (September 2024)
Special Issue: Christianity and African American Literature
Guest Editors: Jennifer McFarlane-Harris (Seattle Pacific University); Peter Kerry Powers (Messiah University)
Introduction
Jennifer McFarlane-Harris and Peter Kerry Powers, “Introduction: Christianity and African American Literature
Articles
1. Jorden E. Sanders, Rutgers University
“We Fervently Pray”: Reading Afro-Protestant Prayer as Genre Intervention in “The Petition of Absalom Jones and Others—People of Colour and Freemen of Philadelphia”
2. Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Seattle Pacific University
Autotheography “Now”: Theorizing Genre and Sanctification in Julia A. J. Foote’s A Brand Plucked from the Fire
3. Christopher Leise, Whitman College
Sacraments, Veils, and the Altar of Democracy: Calvinist Rhetoric in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”
4. Daniela B. Abraham, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology
(Re)weaving the Black Heritage: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s Black Christian Ethics of Collaboration and Pioneering Social Service
5. Mary-Antoinette Smith, Seattle University
Her Fierce Faith: Contextualizing Ellen Tarry as a Catholic Convert and Foremother of Black Lives Matter Activism
6. Grace Perry McCright, Baylor University
“Rise up and tell it”: Go Tell It on the Mountain, #ChurchToo, and James Baldwin’s Christian Witnesses
7. Bryan M. Santin, Concordia University, Irvine
The Self-Confrontation of Prayer: The Christian Right in James Baldwin’s Later Essays
Review Essay
Peter Kerry Powers, Messiah University
Telling the past, Naming the Present: Recent Work in Christianity and African American Literature
Christianity & Literature Volume 73, Issue 2 (June 2024)
Articles
1. Jeong Oh Kim, Vanderbilt University
Sir Thomas Browne’s Faith, Hope, and Love in Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and “A Letter to a Friend”
2. A. Louise Cole, University of Arkansas
Barrenness, Monstrosity, and Redemption: Exploring Motherhood in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
3. Benjamin D Crace, independent scholar
The Anglo-Catholic Apocalyptic Milieu and T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
4. Austin Busch, SUNY Brockport
Sacrifice and Atonement in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and William Faulkner’s Light in August
5. Andrew P. Hicks, Baylor University
The Zany Paraclete: Seeking the Pentecostal Community in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
6. Chase Alec Seely, Concordia University Irvine
The Resurrection of Chivalry in Tom Wolfe’s Back to Blood
Poetry
Sarah Gordon, “Volute”
Book Reviews
1. Laura K. Bedwell, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Fifteenth-Century Lives: Writing Sainthood in England. By Karen A. Winstead. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-268-10854-0. Pp. xi + 197. $45. Ebook: 978-0-268-10855-7. $35.99.
2. Maria O’Connell, Wayland Baptist University
The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption. By Andrew Ball. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. ISBN 978-1350231672. Pp. vi+260. $108.00.
3. Mark Bennion, Brigham Young University—Idaho
Psalm to Whom(e). By Diane Glancy. Brooklyn, NY: Turtle Point Press, 2023. ISBN 978-1-885983-34-3. Pp. 127. $18.00.
Christianity & Literature Volume 73, Issue 1 (March 2024)
Articles
1. David Pedersen, College of the Ozarks
Happy Wife, Happy Life: Pauline Marriage in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath's Tale
2. Don Adams, Florida Atlantic University
Becoming the Wounded Person: The Christian Vision of James Purdy’s Fiction
3. Will Brewbaker, Duke University
“This sea which utters me”: Reading W.S. Graham’s “The Nightfishing” in the Theological Wake of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Wreck of the Deutschland”
4. Alex Murray, Queens University Belfast
Havelock Ellis and Decadent Conversion
5. Jack Love, Texas A & M University
Hazel Motes and Midcult Religion in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
6. Brent Little, Sacred Heart University
The Problem of Sacrifice in Mary Gordon’s Final Payments
7. Jeffrey Bilbro and Sarah Reardon, Spring Arbor University
Incarnation and Imagination in Jayber Crow: Wendell Berry’s Divine Comedy
Poetry
Octavio Quintinilla, “Summer Elegy”
Rodney Jones, “Hippie in Alabama”
Rodney Jones, “Why am I Making this Noise?”
Harold Van Lonkhuyzen, “The Notch”
Book Reviews
1. Samuel C. Still, University of Exeter
The Karamazov Case: Dostoevsky’s Argument for His Vision. By Terrence W. Tilley. T&T Clark Explorations at the Crossroads of Theology and Aesthetics. London: T&T Clark, 2023. Pp. viii + 172 . $115.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-567-70437-5.
2. Suzanne Stewart, St. Francis Xavier University
Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature. By Louis Groarke. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2023. ISBN: 978-0-2280-1423-2. Pp. 336. $110.00 CAD.
3. Rachel B. Griffis, Spring Arbor University
Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy. By Steven Frye. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0-8173-6109-9. Pp. 194. $29.95.
4. Harrison Otis, Baylor University
The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis. By Karen Swallow Prior. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2023. ISBN 9781587435751. Pp. 289. $26.99.
5. Yifan Zhang, Baylor University
Christian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology. Edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas. MA: Paraclete Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1-64060-812-2. Pp. 201. $25.