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Ralph Wood, Professor of English,
received his B. A. and M.A. degrees in English from East Texas State
University, as well as an M. A. and Ph. D. in Theology and Literature from
the University of Chicago. His teaching and research commitments include
Christian Literary Classics (especially the works of Dante, Herbert, Bunyan,
and Hopkins), the Oxford Inklings, as well as 20th century theology and
literature (especially Karl Barth and Flannery O'Connor). Before coming to
Baylor, he taught for 26 years at Wake Forest University, where he won
awards for distinguished teaching. His publications include the following:
* The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists (Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, John Updike, Peter De Vries). University of Notre Dame Press, 1988, still available. * "Gumption and Grace in the Novels of Kaye Gibbons," Christian Century 109, 27 (September 23-30, 1992): 842-6. * "Words Under the Rocks" [an essay on the film version of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It], Christian Century 110, 2 (January 20, 1993): 44-6. Winner of the Associated Church Press 1993 Award of Merit for Critical Reviews. * "Traveling the One Road: The Lord of the Rings as a 'Pre-Christian' Classic," Christian Century 110, 6 (February 24, 1993): 208-11. * "Rapidly Rises the Morning Tide: An Essay on P. D. James' The Children of Men," Theology Today, 51, 2 (July 1994): 277-88. * "'Where Is the Voice Coming From?' Flannery O'Connor on Race," Flannery O'Connor Bulletin, 22 (1993-94): 90-118. A letter in response from Sally Fitzgerald, together with a reply from the author, Flannery O'Connor Bulletin, 23 (1994-95): 175-83. * "The Baptized Imagination: C. S. Lewis's Fictional Apologetics," Christian Century, 112, 25 (August 30-September 6, 1995): 812-15. * "Dostoevsky on Evil as a Perversion of Personhood: A Reading of Ivan Karamazov and the Grand Inquisitor," Perspectives in Religious Studies 26, 3 (Fall 1999): 331-48. * "G. K. Chesterton and the Many Roads Leading to Jerusalem," a review-essay on David Fagerberg's The Size of Chesterton's Catholicism, Pro Ecclesia, IX, 2 (Spring 2000): 236-40.
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Christopher W. Mitchell is Director of the Marion E. Wade Center, and Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Wheaton College, Illinois. He serves as Book Review Editor for Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, a journal published annually by the Wade Center on its authors. Mitchell received a M.A. from Wheaton College, and a Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where his concentration was Historical Theology. He and his wife Julie live in Wheaton with two of their four children. "Following the Argument Wherever it Leads:
C.S. Lewis and the Oxford University Socratic Club, 1942 to 1954,"
Inklings Jahrbuch fur Literatur und Asthetik, 17 (1999)
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