Table of Contents

Introductory Essays
1: Elisabeth Jay: `Now and in England'
2: David Jasper: The Study of Literature and Theology
General Reading List
The Formation of the Tradition
3: Michael Fox: Origins in the English Tradition
4: Lynne Long: Vernacular Bibles and Prayer Books and English Literature
5: Brian Cummings: The Protestant and Catholic Reformations
6: Rhodri Lewis: The Enlightenment
7: Scott Masson: Romanticism
8: David E. Klemm: The Influence of German Criticism on English Literature
9: T. R. Wright: The Victorians
10: Cleo Kearns: Modernism in Literature and Theology
11: Kevin Hart: Postmodernism
Literary Ways of Reading the Bible
12: Peter S. Hawkins: The Bible as Literature and Sacred Text
13: Tod Linafelt: The Pentateuch
14: Timothy K. Beal: Judges
15: Alastair Hunter: Literary Approaches to the Psalms
16: J. Cheryl Exum: Song of Songs
17: Kirsten Nielsen: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job in Literature
18: Yvonne Sherwood: Prophetic Literature
19: George Aichele: Literary Ways of Reading the Synoptic Gospels
20: Adele Reinhartz: The Gospel of John
21: Christopher Rowland: Apocalyptic Literature
Theological Ways of Reading Literature
22: Nicholas Watson: William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer
23: Thomas Healy: Shakespeare and Marlow
24: Helen Wilcox: Herbert and Donne
25: Michel Lieb: John Milton
26: Scott Robertson: The Eighteenth-Century Novel
27: Christopher Burdon: William Blake
28: Simon Bainbridge: Wordsworth and Coleridge
29: Norman Vance: George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
30: Valentine Cunningham: James Joyce
31: Stephen Medcalf: T. S. Eliot, David Jones and W. H. Auden
32: Heather Walton: The Feminist Literary Revisioning of Sacred Traditions
Theology as Literature
33: Donald Gray: Thomas Cranmer and the Collects
34: Robert G. Collmer: John Bunyan - Thinker and Tinker
35: Lori Branch: Bishop Butler
36: Kirstie Blair: John Keble and `The Christian Year'
37: Ian Ker: John Henry Newman
38: Luke Ferretter: Matthew Arnold
39: Cath Filmer-Davies: The Theology of C. S. Lewis
40: Bridget Nichols: Liturgy as Literature
The Great Themes
41: Eric Ziolkowski: Evil and the God of Love
42: Tina Pippin: Death and the Afterlife
43: David Scott: The Pastoral Tradition in English Religious Poetry
44: Paul Fiddes: The Passion Story in Literature
45: Daniel Boscaljon: Possibilities of Redemption within Secular Texts
46: Alison Jasper: Body and Word
47: Elena Volkova: Visions of Heaven and Hell
48: Pamela Sue Anderson: Feminism and Patriarchy
49: George Newlands: Salvation - Personal and Political
Afterword
50: Andrew Hass: The Future of English Literature and Theology

Reviews

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