The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology

by Hass, Andrew; Jasper, David; Jay, Elisabeth

• ISBN13: 9780199544486
• ISBN10: 0199544484
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology is a defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology. The volume first offers a chronological account of key moments in the formation of the tradition; goes on to demonstrate literary ways of reading the Bible, theological ways of reading literature, and literary conceptions of theological texts; and finally explores the great themes that have preoccupied the Jewish and Christian traditions. Framing editorial essays describe the history, the cultural implications, and the methodological issues of this now popular interdisciplinary study, before speculating as to its possible futures in a postmodern, multicultural world.

Table of Contents

Introductory Essays1. `Now and in England', Elisabeth Jay2. The Study of Literature and Theology, David JasperGeneral Reading ListThe Formation of the Tradition3. Origins in the English Tradition, Michael Fox4. Vernacular Bibles and Prayer Books and English Literature, Lynne Long5. The Protestant and Catholic Reformations, Brian Cummings6. The Enlightenment, Rhodri Lewis7. Romanticism, Scott Masson8. The Influence of German Criticism on English Literature, David E. Klemm9. The Victorians, T. R. Wright10. Modernism in Literature and Theology, Cleo Kearns11. Postmodernism, Kevin HartLiterary Ways of Reading the Bible12. The Bible as Literature and Sacred Text, Peter S. Hawkins13. The Pentateuch, Tod Linafelt14. Judges, Timothy K. Beal15. Literary Approaches to the Psalms, Alastair Hunter16. Song of Songs, J. Cheryl Exum17. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job in Literature, Kirsten Nielsen18. Prophetic Literature, Yvonne Sherwood19. Literary Ways of Reading the Synoptic Gospels, George Aichele20. The Gospel of John, Adele Reinhartz21. Apocalyptic Literature, Christopher RowlandTheological Ways of Reading Literature22. William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer, Nicholas Watson23. Shakespeare and Marlow, Thomas Healy24. Herbert and Donne, Helen Wilcox25. John Milton, Michel Lieb26. The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Scott Robertson27. William Blake, Christopher Burdon28. Wordsworth and Coleridge, Simon Bainbridge29. George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, Norman Vance30. James Joyce, Valentine Cunningham31. T. S. Eliot, David Jones and W. H. Auden, Stephen Medcalf32. The Feminist Literary Revisioning of Sacred Traditions, Heather WaltonTheology as Literature33. Thomas Cranmer and the Collects, Donald Gray34. John Bunyan - Thinker and Tinker, Robert G. Collmer35. Bishop Butler, Lori Branch36. John Keble and `The Christian Year', Kirstie Blair37. John Henry Newman, Ian Ker38. Matthew Arnold, Luke Ferretter39. The Theology of C. S. Lewis, Cath Filmer-Davies40. Liturgy as Literature, Bridget NicholsThe Great Themes41. Evil and the God of Love, Eric Ziolkowski42. Death and the Afterlife, Tina Pippin43. The Pastoral Tradition in English Religious Poetry, David Scott44. The Passion Story in Literature, Paul Fiddes45. Possibilities of Redemption within Secular Texts, Daniel Boscaljon46. Body and Word, Alison Jasper47. Visions of Heaven and Hell, Elena Volkova48. Feminism and Patriarchy, Pamela Sue Anderson49. Salvation - Personal and Political, George NewlandsAfterword50. The Future of English Literature and Theology, Andrew Hass