Theology and Literature after Postmodernity

by Imfeld, Zoë Lehmann; Hampson, Peter; Milbank, Alison; D'Costa, Gavin; Hampson, Peter; Abraham, William J.; Imfeld, Zoë Lehmann

• ISBN13: 9780567672056
• ISBN10: 0567672050
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-09-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise. It engages in a dialogue with interdisciplinary approaches to literature in which theology is alert and responsive to the challenges following postmodernism and postmodern literary criticism. It demonstrates the scope and explanatory power of theological readings across various texts and literary genres. Theology and Literature after Postmodernity explores a reconstructive approach to reading and literary study in the university setting, with contributions from interdisciplinary scholars worldwide.

Author Biography

Zoë Lehmann Imfeld is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Peter Hampson is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK.

Alison Milbank is Associate Professor in Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword
Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University, USA

Introduction: Hospitable Conversations in Theology and Literature: Re-opening a Space to be Human
The Editors

Part One: Pedagogy

1. Religion, History, and Faithful Reading
Susannah Brietz Monta, University of Notre Dame, USA
2. Theology, Literature and Prayer: A Pedagogical Suggestion
Vittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame, US
3. Bleak Liturgies: R. S. Thomas and 'changes not to his liking'
Hester Jones, University of Bristol, UK

Part Two: Theological and Literary Reconstructions
4. Belief and Imagination
Graham Ward, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK
5. Literary Apologetics beyond Postmodernism: Duality and Death in Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling
Alison Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK
6. Cusa: A Pre-modern Postmodern Reader of Shakespeare
Johannes Hoff, Heythrop College, UK and Peter Hampson, Blackfriars Hall, UK
7.'The One Life within Us and Abroad': Pathetic Fallacy Reconsidered
Gavin Hopps, University of St Andrews, UK
8. Love Among the Ruins: Hermeneutics of Theology and Literature in the University after the 20th century
Jeffrey Keuss, Seattle Pacific University, USA
9. 'Thrashing between Exoneration and Excoriation: Creating Narratives in We Need to Talk about Kevin
Zoë Lehmann Imfeld, University of Bern, Switzerland
10. The Shakespeare Music: Eliot and von Balthasar on Shakespeare's 'romances' and the 'ultra-dramatic'
Aaron Riches, Instituto de Teología Lumen Gentium, Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein, Spain
11. Fictioning Things: Gift and Narrative
John Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK
12. Language, Reality and Desire in Augustine's De Doctrina
Rowan Williams, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK

Index