Clarence Walhout, an English professor at Calvin College for over twenty years, is a coauthor of The Responsibility of Hermeneutics. Leland Ryken is chair of the English Department at Wheaton College; his books include The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly about the Arts and Windows to the World: Literature in Christian Perspective.
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"Calling Christian scholars to overdue participation in 'the debates over contemporary literary theory, ' this collection provides a useful overview of critical debates and movements in our time. Whether the dozen essays in fact prepare the ground for a 'Christian criticism' will no doubt be disputed; that they nudge us insistently and insightfully in the right direction, however, cannot be denied. Insofar as they repudiate a facile separation between belief and practice, these thoughtful critiques issue a challenge that should not go unheeded within the academy at large." ROBERT SNYDER Editor of Christianity and Literature