October 1-3, 2009
Houston Baptist University

James 1:17 states, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights."

Christians have long affirmed that God invests language with meaning such that it always already reveals the grace of God. As a result of the Fall, Christians have also been  keenly aware that language can deceive and conceal God's grace. This conference aims to explore the implications of this tension between revealing and concealing as reflected in the literature and literary theory and of Christian and non-Christian writers.

This conference invites papers that reflect some aspect of Christianity's relationship to the written word and God's grace, which may include the following sub-topics:

• Christianity, literature, and nature
• The iconic or iconoclastic in literature
• Sacramentalism and the written word
• The relationship between Christianity and the trivium - Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric
• Christianity and literary hermeneutics
• Realist and representational literature
• The plenty or poverty of language
• Literary outworkings of cataphatic and apophatic theology
• and other papers dealing with the conference theme
  

Registration:

Registration for Professionals is $125, Student registration is $55. Registration fees include one meal (Friday night’s banquet) but do not include CCL membership. If you are not a CCL member, you will need to become a member to participate in the conference.  Current dues are $25 for professionals and $20 for students and include a year’s subscription to Christianity and Literature. You may include these dues in your registration fees if you choose.

You have two options to register:

Register and pay online now

or

Download, print and fill out the   PDF version of the registration and mail it with your payment to:

CCL Registration
The Honors College
Houston Baptist University
7502 Fondren
Houston, TX 77074

Please make checks payable to Houston Baptist University.

Individuals are responsible to reserve their own accommodations. Please see the Hotel Information link for more information.

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