- Manooher Mofidi. 'Abdu'l Bahá's Tablet of the Two Calls: Civilizing Barbarity (2005). — The relatioship between civilization and barbarity, and the capabilities of humanity.
- Elham Afnan. 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Ezra Pound's Circle (1994). — On the 1911 meeting between Ezra Pound, the famous American modernist poet, and 'Abdu'l-Baha; links ...
- Suheil Badi Bushrui. Age of Anxiety and the Century of Light, The: Twentieth-Century Literature, the Poet's Mission, and the Vision of World Unity (2003). — W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Kahlil Gibran were writers who recognized and confronted ...
- Shirin Sabri. Author's Response to Commentaries on "The Purpose of Poetry" (1989-1990).
- Ted Slavin. Dichotomies of Charles Dickens still hold true today, The (2011-02-19). — On the state of the present-day world, which swings between the extremes of unprecedented achievemen...
- Jack McLean. Dimensions of Spirituality: Reflections on the Meaning of Spiritual Life and Transformation in Light of the Bahá'í Faith (1994). — The search for truth; models and profiles of spiritual transformation; the mystical sense — prayer...
- Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis. Four Levels of Detachment in Doris Lessing's Shikasta,, The (2004). — The concept of detachment in Baha’u’llah’s Writings and its application to Doris Lessing’s S...
- Tom Lysaght. Genesis in King Lear: Joseph's Many-Colored Coat Suits Shakespeare (2019). — Creative comparison of the biblical figure of Joseph and the character of Edgar in Shakespeare's Kin...
- Elham Afnan. Good of the World and the Happiness of the Nations, The: A Study of Modern Utopian and Dystopian Literature (1989). — The Baha'i Writings, with their new understanding of human destiny, can bridge the gap between utopi...
- Ross Woodman. "Good of the World and the Happiness of the Nations: A Study of Modern Utopian and Dystopian Literature,: Commentary (1989).
- Ross Woodman. "In the Beginning Was the Word": Apocalypse and the Education of the Soul (1993). — Hidden meanings in scripture and the soul are metaphorically identified with the huris, or brides. T...
- Todd Lawson. Joycean Modernism in a Nineteenth-Century Qur'an Commentary?: A Comparison of The Báb's Qayyūm Al-Asmā' with Joyce's Ulysses (2015). — Comparison of the formal structure of the two works and themes such as time; oppositions and their r...
- John S. Hatcher. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (2021). — List of online essays and articles by Dr. John Hatcher.
- Jack McLean. Literary Criticism, Theology and Deconstructionism (2001). — A dynamic tension exists between literary criticism and theology as distinct but mutually beneficial...
- Edwin McCloughan. Long, Withdrawing Roar, The: The Crisis of Faith and Nineteenth-Century English Poetry (2002). — A Baha'i response to the argument that the crisis of faith in the late 19th century was conditioned ...
- Ross Woodman. Metaphor and the Language of Revelation (1997). — To enter the realm of metaphor as the language of the soul is to come into direct contact with the W...
- E. S. Stevens. Mountain of God, The (1911/1970). — Book excerpts, sympathetic portrayal by a non-Baha'i of Abdu'l-Baha and the small band of Baha’is ...
- Sen McGlinn. Ocean of His Words, by John Hatcher: Review (1999).
- John Huddleston. Phoenix and the Ashes: The Bahá'í Faith and the Modern Apocalypse, by Geoffrey Nash: Review (1988). — 19th-century optimism, disillusionment with contemporary society, philosophy of history, political t...
- Robert E. Hayden, Douglas Ruhe, John S. Hatcher. Place of Poetry in Religion and Society, The: An Interview of Robert E. Hayden with Douglas Ruhe (2014). — Introduction by Hatcher to the life of Hayden (2014); transcript of a talk between Hayden and Dougla...
- Shirin Sabri. Purpose of Poetry, The (1988). — Justifications for the work of contemporary artists; now is the time for Baha’is to work towards t...
- David L. Erickson. "Purpose of Poetry," by Shirin Sabri: Commentary (1989).
- Marion Woodman. Role of the Feminine in the New Era, The (1989). — The unveiled feminine, symbolized by the unveiling of the Persian poet Tahirih at the conference ...
- William Michael Rossetti. Shelly's Life and Writings (1878 March). — Brief overview of the Babi Faith and Qurratu'l-Ayn vis-a-vis themes and personages in "The Revolt of...
- Nobel Augusto Perdu Honeyman (published as Nobel Perdu), Ismael Velasco. Shoghi Effendi: An approach to his artistic contribution to style in English literature and to standards in translation (2004). — On the technical and literary features of Shoghi Effendi's translations of Baha'i scriptures: transl...
- Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis. Spiritual Oppression in Frankenstein (1999). — Comparing Shelley’s depiction of a spiritual malaise in Frankenstein with Baha’u’llah’s defi...
- Cal E. Rollins. Symbols of Individuation in E. S. Stevens's The Mountain of God (1989). — Stevens’s novel records impressions of the Baha'i community in ‘Akka and Haifa in 1911. The two ...
- Jack McLean. "The Purpose of Poetry," by Shirin Sabri: Commentary (1989).
- Horace Holley. The Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1922-08). — On the creative nature of literature; the writings of Shakespeare; Baha'u'llah as author; the influe...
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