John Updike and religion: the sense of the sacred and the motions of grace

Preface / James Yerkes

Earthworm / John Updike

Remarks upon receiving the Campion Medal / John Updike

As good as it gets: the religious consciousness in John Updike's literary vision / James Yerkes

The obligation to live: duty and desire in John Updike's Self-consciousness / Avis Hewitt

The pocket nothing else will fill: Updike's domestic God / James A. Schiff

When earth speaks of heaven: the future of race and faith in Updike's Brazil / Dilvo I. Ristoff

Updike 2020: fantasy, mythology, and faith in Toward the end of time / David Malone

An umbrella blowing inside out: paradoxical theology and American culture in the novels of John Updike / Kyle A. Pasewark

What is goodness? The influence of Updike's Lutheran roots / Darrell Jodock

Writing as a reader of Karl Barth: what kind of religious writer is John Updike not? / Stephen H. Webb

The world and the void: creatio ex nihilo and homoeroticism in Updike's Rabbit is rich / Marshall Boswell

Learning to die: work as religious discipline in Updike's fiction / Wesley A. Kort

Faith or fiction: Updike and the American renaissance / Charles Berryman

Giving the Devil his due: leeching and edification of spirit in The scarlet letter and The witches of Eastwick / James Plath

Guru Industries, Ltd.: red-letter religion in Updike's S. / Judie Newman

Chaos and society: religion and the idea of civil order in Updike's Memories of the Ford administration / George S. Diamond

The world as host: John Updike and the cultural affirmation of faith / Donald J. Greiner.