Christianity & Literature

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Articles must be submitted electronically to ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online peer-review system used by Christianity & Literature. Please submit your manuscript here:  

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/christlit

All submissions must be formatted for blind peer review and should include:
• a title page with the author’s name, email, and mailing address.
• a 100-word abstract and a list of suggested keywords to accompany the essay: 3-5 is appropriate.
• a short biographical note with information about your position, research, and publications.
• the essay, with title on first page, and page numbers on all following pages. There should be no author identification in the body of the essay.

1. All articles submitted for publication should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, Notes and Bibliography Style, but please do not include a Bibliography or Works Cited list—incorporate all of your references into your notes. You may do this in your final version, not the version for review.
2. Articles of fewer than 5,000 or more than 9,000 words, including notes are not ordinarily considered, unless they are commissioned for a special issue or of exceptional merit. Submissions should comply with accepted guidelines for nonsexist usage.

For information about the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, Notes and Bibliography Style, go to their webpage:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed17/frontmatter/toc.html

A Chicago Style Citation Quick Guide is also available here:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html

General inquiries can be made to [email protected] or to the following mailing address:

Darren J. N. Middleton, Editor
Christianity & Literature
Director, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core
Professor of Literature and Theology
Draper Academic Building 246.25
One Bear Place #97350
Waco, TX 76798-7350

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Peer Review Policy

Christianity & Literature is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Published quarterly in March, June, September, and December, each issue contains articles, book reviews, and poems. Each submission is carefully evaluated by the editors. If the submission is deemed worthy of peer review, it is then sent to external reviewers in an anonymous, double-blind peer-review process. External reviewers are selected on the basis of their expertise in the fields or subject areas of each submission. The editors consider a submission only with the understanding that it has not been concurrently submitted elsewhere. Christianity & Literature is committed to a reasonable timeline for peer review. We expect to reach a decision on each submission within three to four months. In the case of unavoidable delays, the editors will attempt to communicate with authors.

Editor

Darren J. N. Middleton, Baylor University

Associate Editor 

Katie Calloway, Baylor University
Lynne Hinojosa, Baylor University
Caleb D. Spencer, Azusa Pacific University

Poetry Editor

Peter Cooley, Tulane University

Book Review Editor

Sarah Berry, University of Dallas

Managing Editor

Grace Perry McCright

CCL Website

Jared Neal

Editorial Board

Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame
Lori Branch, University of Iowa
Paul Contino, Pepperdine University
John D. Cox, Hope College
Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria
Lori Ann Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University
Kevin Hart, University of Virginia
David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School
Peter S. Hawkins, Yale University
Colin Jager, Rutgers University
David Lyle Jeffery, Baylor University
Janet Larson, Rutgers University, Newark
Julia Reinhart Lupton, University of California, Irvine
Susannah Monta, University of Notre Dame
Maire Mullins, Pepperdine University

Special Issue of Christianity & Literature

Climate Fiction and Christianity

This issue aims to publish essays on climate fiction and its related topics that are approached through the lens of Christian theological and literary interpretation.

Climate fiction, or “Cli-Fi,” has boomed as genre of fiction in the last decade or so, with scores of novels produced, and in response, a burgeoning body of literary criticism as well. Imaginative and thought-provoking, these novels at times create a future post-apocalyptic world. At other times they elucidate matters in our present day that contribute to climate change, or they might even look to the past to examine historical forces and causes. While thinking about environmental change in literature is not new, and various writers in previous centuries have also considered this topic, recent novels are often compelling intellectually in new and different ways as they treat and introduce important philosophical, scientific, cultural, historical, and literary questions for our time. For example: What has been and should humanity’s relation to Nature or the material world be? How should the concept of the Anthropocene help us to formulate new ways of thinking and understanding reality? What does it mean to be human on an earth which is physically changing due to humanity’s actions, yet which also exerts power over human life itself? How do we assign responsibility and intervene on a global scale when the roots of climate change are historically rooted in the West, but its effects have altered life in all regions of the world? Will we acknowledge and accommodate the fact of increasing climate migration? The list of themes goes on.

The accelerating publication of such fiction highlights the important role literature holds in this time of climate change and indeed, impending crisis. Many authors, critics, and publishers clearly see fiction having important ethical functions, shaping and grounding its readers while at the same time opening them to new perspectives, possibilities, and ways of being in light of climate change. Well-known authors such as Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Amitav Ghosh, and Kim Stanley Robinson have written climate fiction, as have a wide number of other emerging authors.

Yet despite these increasing trends in fiction and literary studies, there is a scarcity of Christian voices intervening in the field of climate fiction. Most of the authorship of such fiction and much of the scholarship, while doing important work and offering many truths, does not explicitly offer a theological approach. Yet surely the earth as God’s creation; concepts of human sin; Christian responsibility for the neighbor; the global church; faith, hope, and love; and many other biblical and theological concepts are foundational for considering the future of humankind and our shared earthly life amidst climate change. Various predictors indicate many of the earth’s inhabitants will face a radically different way of life within a few decades. The time could not be more ripe, and indeed more critical, for Christians to develop new ideas and forms of storytelling for imagining climate change and thinking about the future of our life together on earth.

Potential topics for essays include:

• concepts of the earth as God’s creation (or not) in recent fiction
• approaches to creation care and the ethics of caring for the earth as imagined in climate fiction
• Christian perspectives on the Anthropocene and its future in light of recent climate fiction
• the relationship of the material to the spiritual; new approaches to materialism
• the ethical responsibilities of writing futuristic fiction
• the relation of science and faith in imagining and approaching climate change
• concepts of “Nature” and “Culture” and their relation
• Christianity, modernity, and technology
• global connectedness and Christian responsibility for our neighbors
• the role of literature in shaping a global imagination regarding climate change
• the limits and benefits of various genres of fiction for imagining climate change: science fiction, fantasy, utopia/dystopia, new weird fiction, speculative fiction, solarpunk, etc.
• the novel as a genre: its limits and possibilities for imagining climate change
• biblical apocalyptic literature and its relevance for climate fiction
• concepts of hope, despair, presumption, and lament in climate fiction
• treatment of sin, reconciliation, confession, and the Church in climate fiction
• the climate refugee, wanderer, immigrant
• the earth’s resources, poverty, gender, and/or race in climate fiction
• non-Western climate fiction (e.g. Afrofuturism)
• what Christians can learn from “secular” approaches to climate fiction and vice versa
• the possibilities of human creativity/imagination for guiding us into the future
• specific Christian fiction writers who treat climate change
• Christian perspectives on necropolitics as portrayed in climate fiction

Deadline: July 1, 2026

Full-length essays (6,000-9,000 words) and shorter (4,000 words) “think” pieces are both welcome. Essays should be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition.

Manuscripts must be submitted by July 1, 2026, to the journal’s submission portal: ScholarOne Manuscripts

Guidelines for the journal’s formatting and citation style can be found here:
https://www.christianityandliterature.com/journal

Contact: Lynne Hinojosa, Associate Professor of Literature in the Honors Program, Baylor University, and Associate Editor, Christianity and Literature
Please direct all inquiries to: [email protected]

The editors assign book reviews by invitation. If you would like to suggest a book for review or offer to write a book review, please write to Sarah Berry at [email protected]. If you are an author or publisher, please send books for review to:

Sarah Berry, Book Review Editor
 

Once accepted, you will be asked to submit your book review to ScholarOne Manuscripts here: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/christlit

Poetry submissions are accepted in hard copy only. Please send all poetry submissions to:
 
Peter Cooley, Poetry Editor

Christianity & Literature
Tulane University
Department of English, Norman Mayer 122
New Orleans, LA 70118

The poetry editor looks for poems that are clear and surprising. They should have a compelling sense of voice, formal sophistication (though not necessarily rhyme and meter), and the ability to reveal the spiritual through concrete images.

Once accepted, you will be asked to submit your poem or poems to ScholarOne Manuscripts here: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/christlit

Please be sure to include all relevant contact information along with a poem or poems: name, address, and especially your email.

Poetry submissions will not be acknowledged or returned unless they are accompanied by a SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) with sufficient return postage.

Abstracting & Indexing Databases

• De Gruyter Saur
  • Dietrich's Index Philosophicus
  • IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
  • Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
• EBSCOhost
  • Academic Search Alumni Edition, 1/1/2003-
  • Academic Search Complete, 1/1/2003-
  • Academic Search Elite, 1/1/2003-
  • Academic Search Premier, 1/1/2003-
  • Academic Search: Main Edition, 6/1/1995-
  • Advanced Placement Source, 1/1/2003-
  • American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (Online), 1989-, dropped
  • ATLA Religion Database (American Theological Library Association), 1973-2017
  • Biography Index: Past and Present (H.W. Wilson), vol.45, 1996-vol.59, no.1, 2009
  • Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Jun.1995-
  • Christian Periodical Index, 1976-
  • Current Abstracts, 1/1/2003-
  • Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson), 4/15/1995-
  • Humanities Index (Online), 1995/06-
  • Humanities International Complete, 6/1/1995-
  • Humanities International Index, 6/1/1995-
  • Humanities Source, 4/15/1995-
  • Humanities Source Ultimate, 4/15/1995-
  • Literary Reference Center, 7/1/2003-
  • Literary Reference Center Plus, 7/1/2003-
  • Literary Reference Center: Main Edition, 6/1/1995-
  • MainFile, 6/1/1995-
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), 4/15/1995-
  • OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson), 4/15/1995-
  • Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 6/1/1995-
  • Religion & Philosophy Collection, 1/1/2003-
  • TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 6/1/1995-
• Gale
  • Book Review Index Plus
  • Gale Academic OneFile
  • Gale Academic OneFile Select, 01/1996-03/2014, dropped
  • Gale General OneFile, 09/1994-03/2014, dropped
  • Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy, 09/1994 - 03/2014, dropped
  • InfoTrac Custom, 1/1996-3/2014
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
• OCLC
  • ArticleFirst, vol.44, no.2, 1995-vol.61, no.1, 2011
  • Humanities Index (Online), 1995/06-
• ProQuest
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • Professional ProQuest Central, 10/01/2004-01/01/2005
  • ProQuest 5000, 10/01/2004-01/01/2005
  • ProQuest 5000 International, 10/01/2004-01/01/2005
  • ProQuest Central, 10/01/2004-01/01/2005
  • Religion Database, 10/01/2004-01/01/2005
  • Research Library, 10/01/2004-01/01/2005
  • The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
• Religious & Theological Abstracts, Inc.
  • Religious & Theological Abstracts, 1989-

Abstracting & Indexing Sources

• Abstracts of English Studies   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Children's Literature Abstracts   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Literary Criticism Register   (Ceased)  (Print)
• MLA Abstracts of Articles in Scholarly Journals   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Religion Index One: Periodicals   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works   (Ceased)  (Print)

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