Conferences have been held annually in the University of Oxford each November until 2022. Thanks to Professor Valentine Cunningham, the English Literature fellow of Corpus Christi College, they took place in the College with papers delivered in a seminar setting with discussion. Conference publicity had an international reach and the conference was open to members of the Christian Literary Studies Group as well as more widely. Scholars from UK and European universities presented papers, as well as those from Australia and the USA. In Canada there was another CLSG where Secretary Dr Roger Kojecky was invited to give a keynote lecture at Toronto. He was a visiting lecturer at Chinese universities including Tsinghua and Xiamen.

The Glass appeared annually, and papers from the conference might appear as academic journal articles, together with book reviews and occasionally poems.

The conference planned for 2023 was made known as below.
 

Interfused: imagination, faith and reason in Romantic Writers
(Cancelled)

Saturday 4 November 2023

Corpus Christi College, Oxford
 

The early Wordsworth would describe himself in his reflective poem of 1798 Tintern Abbey as a worshipper of Nature, a pantheist in all but name. But is this a fair representation of the wider Romantic movement? Faith was, it seems, a field force in the fusion which here and there conjoined disparate elements into forms of Romanticism.
 

‘Was Wordsworth Nervous about Christianity?’
Stephen Logan, Independent Scholar
 

Forms of Transcendence in Coleridge’s ‘The Eolian Harp’ and ‘Frost at Midnight’
Abigail Rogers, Duke University
 

 ‘Wordsworth and the Language of Vagrancy: Theology and Poverty in the Salisbury Plain poems’
Jo Semmans, Birmingham City University
 

‘George MacDonald's Romanticism and Scottish Christianity’
Joyce McPherson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Some secondary sources

Exploring Christian and Biblical themes in literature