Conference on Christianity and Literature Book-of-the-Year Award

Given by Conference on Christianity and Literature

53 Works 25,237 Books 380 Reviews 4.2
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WorkCategoryYear
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder by Brian Doyle
2020
A Subversive Gospel: Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth (Studies in Theology and the Arts) by Michael Mears Bruner
2019
The Five Quintets by Micheal O'Siadhail
2018
Death Be Not Proud by David Marno
2017
Beyond the willing suspension of disbelief : poetic faith from Coleridge to Tolkien by Michael Tomko
2016
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski
2015
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury
2014
Literary Epiphany in the Novel, 1850-1950: Constellations of the Soul by S. Kim
2013
Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern) by Clare Costley King'oo
2012
The Poet as Believer: A Theological Study of Paul Claudel (Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts) (Hardback) - Common by Aidan Nichols
2011
Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion by Sarah McNamer
2010
The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England (Material Texts) by James Kearney
2009
Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England by Jessica Brantley
2008
Dante's hermeneutics of salvation passages to freedom in the Divine comedy by Christine O'Connell Baur
Honorable Mention2007
Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth by Lori Branch
Scholarly Work2007
Auden and Christianity by Arthur Kirsch
2006
Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England by Susannah Brietz Monta
2005
A Slender Grace: Poems by Rod Jellema
2004
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie
2003
The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life by Julia Kasdorf
2002
Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England by Jeffrey Knapp
2002
Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England by Ramie Targoff
2001
The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium by Peggy Rosenthal
Honorable Mention2000
Shakespeare, Catholicism, and Romance by Velma Bourgeois Richmond
2000
Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) by Ruth Coates
1999
Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief by Roger Lundin
Honorable Mention1998
What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem?: Timaeus and Genesis in Counterpoint by Jaroslav Pelikan
1998
The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Robert M. Ryan
1997
People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture by David L. Jeffrey
1996
Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places (Wheaton Literary Series) by Madeleine L'Engle
1996
Julian of Norwich's Showings by Denise Nowakowski Baker
Honorable Mention1995
Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision: Against the Modern Failure of Nerve by Louis A. Ruprecht
1995
A History of the Bible as Literature: Volume 1, From Antiquity to 1700 by David Norton
1994
A History of the Bible as Literature: Volume 2, From 1700 to the Present Day by David Norton
1994
The Son of Laughter by Frederick Buechner
1993
Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature by David L. Jeffrey
1993
The Changes of Cain by Ricardo J. Quinones
1992
Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology by Michael Wheeler
1991
The Voice of Jacob: On the Composition of Genesis by Leslie Brisman
Honorable Mention1990
A form of sound words : the religious poetry of Christopher Smart by Harriet Guest
1990
Wheat that Springeth Green (New York Review Books Classics) by J. F. Powers
Honorable Mention1989
Gracious Laughter: The Meditative Wit of Edward Taylor by John Gatta
1989
The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather, 1639-1723 by Michael G. Hall
1988
Words and The Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation by Stephen Prickett
1987
Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible by Chana Bloch
1986
The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales by Michael J. Colacurcio
1985
Locke, Wesley, and the method of English romanticism by Richard E. Brantley
1984
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
1983
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye
1982
John Updike and the Three Great Secret Things: Sex, Religion, and Art by George W. Hunt
1981
The fivesquare city : the city in the religious imagination by James Dougherty
1980
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Sally Fitzgerald
1979
Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
1979

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