Ministry and Leadership: Christianity & Literature

The journal presupposes no particular theological orientation but respects an orthodox understanding of Christianity as a historically defined 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.

The journal is sponsored by the Conference on Christianity and Literature, a national organization interested in the relationship of Christianity and literature and dedicated to both scholarly excellence and collegial exchange. It is a member of CELJ, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Each issue of the journal, which has been published for more than 50 years, contains peer-reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, poetry, and news and announcements of interest to CCL members.

Provides a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue, inviting both close textual analysis and broader theoretical speculation as ways of exploring how religion is embedded within culture.

Contributions, addressing questions of interest to both the disciplines of literature and theology, are encouraged to confront and challenge traditional modes of discourse within a wide range of related fields, encompassing biblical criticism, literary criticism, philosophy, politics, history, cultural studies, and contemporary critical theory or practice.

Critical and scholarly journal published by Marquette University as an expression of its Jesuit mission of the search for truth and the exaltation of human dignity. The journal's essays explore how literature is informed by and contributes to our understanding of fundamental questions concerning moral philosophy, theology, and spirituality.

University of Notre Dame's scholarly journal providing a forum for discussion of the relations between two crucial human concerns, the religious impulse and the literary forms of any era, place, or language. Their website includes conferences.

From Boston College, journal seeks to explore religious experience and expression in the verbal, visual and performing arts, in the context of contemporary theory and culture. For more information: http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/publications/relarts/supplements.html

It is not intended for theological dispute.

The list will maintain a relationship with the Conference on Christianity and Literature and has among its purposes increasing a sense of community among subscribers.

Items likely to be discussed include:

New scholarship, commentary, criticism, and queries.
Announcements of meetings, seminars, calls for papers.
Ideas for teaching literary texts with an awareness of their relation to the Christian tradition.
Critical perspectives and theories informed by Christianity.