Christina Eickenroht

Christina Day Eickenroht is a PhD candidate in the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St Andrews, under the supervision of Professor Judith Wolfe. Christina's research centers on paradox and eschatology in the novels of Frederick Buechner.

Icons of Lost Words: Presence and Participation in a Modern-Day Bestiary

‘Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children’.1 So begins the fairy-tale preface to The Lost Words, written by Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by Jackie Morris. The preface alludes to the 2007 edition of the…

Christina Eickenroht
18 September 2026

Salvation by Fire: The Magdalene and the Madonna in Dostoevsky’s Poetics

Introduction In Crime and Punishment, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov, candle-lit Magdalenes blaze into burning-bush Madonnas, whose fiery presence proves to be redemptive. In each novel, Dostoevsky fans candle flames into redemptive fires through a series of shifting associations: he…