Notices and Reports 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am

The Book of Common Prayer: the Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662. Edited by Brian Cummings. 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am

Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England. By Elizabeth Clarke. 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am

Sacramental Spirituality in the Brothers Karamazov and Wendell Berry's Port William Characters 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am

This article examines anti-dualism in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, kenotic theosis in Father Zosima, and the pansacramental vision of Wendell Berry’s Port William Characters, all of which exhi...

Magritte: The Uncanny Sublime 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am

I argue that René Magritte visualises an aesthetic of the uncanny sublime by sustaining a tensive dynamic between the visible and the invisible, the known and the unknown. Because the revealing of the...

'Divine Liquidness of Diction ... Divine Fluidity of Movement': Reading Poetry After Matthew Arnold and the Higher Biblical Criticism 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am

This article is prompted by the turn since 2000 in literary study to ‘formalism’ (‘New Formalism’) to return to Matthew Arnold (1822–88) and his work to realign the Bible and literature after Strauss’...

Morbid Pathos in Isaac Watts' Philosophy of Affectionate Religion 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am

This essay traces in Isaac Watts’ philosophy of affectionate religion the emergence of the category of affections as a category of emotion distinct in kind from the passions. I argue that the discrepa...

Amis and Amiloun: A Spiritual Journey and the Failure of Treuthe 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am

In the first half of the medieval English Auchinleck romance Amis and Amiloun, Amis faces hardship and is rescued by Amiloun, and these roles are reversed in the second half. At the centre point lies ...

Fields of Dharma: On T.S. Eliot and Robert Gray 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am

This essay considers two quite different long religious poems of the twentieth century: T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and Robert Gray's ‘Dharma Vehicle’. Both address cultural transitions of several sor...

Editorial 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am