Reading Room

Books, articles, reviews

CLSG members’ offerings – articles, reviews, work in progress – are welcome.

David Barratt and Roger Pooley (eds.) Reading Literature: Some Christian Approaches, a CLSG publication (88pp., read only) 

‘Literary Apologetics and Christian Poetics: A Case Study’ David Barratt compares Valentine Cunningham’s In the Reading Gaol with Michael Edwards’ Towards a Christian Poetics.

David Barratt – ’Hardy and Hebrews: Landscape and landmark’

John Goldingay – ’The Bible and Sexuality’

Roger Kojecký – ’Knowing Good and Evil: T S Eliot and Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ first published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal, Heldref Publications, Washington DC, Vol 11 No 3 Summer 1998, pp. 37-50.
   – ‘Polkinghorne’s chain of connection: Science and natural theology’
   – ‘Biblical Decoding’
   – ‘Confronting Scientism’
   – ‘Spiritual Realism: Epiphany in the Novels of William Golding’, lecture at Redeemer University College, Toronto: QuickTime audio file.
   – A Gospel Reading. Book-length discussion of the progressive discovery of the significance of Jesus in the gospels.

.Pete Lowman – The Loss of God in the Novel
   – Western Literature and the Death of God (lecture at Moscow State Linguistic University)
   – Fictional Absence (a revised PhD thesis)
   – Chronicles of Heaven Unshackled (Lewis and Tolkien, fantasists)

Walter Nash – ‘The Business of Making and the Matter of Genre: A Soliloquy’

Roger Pooley – ’Spiritual Experience and spiritual autobiography’
   – ’Doris Lessing: Mysticism and sexual politics’