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

About the Author

Andrew Hass is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow. Elisabeth Jay is Professor of English at Oxford Brookes University.

Reviews

...illuminating ... this Handbook ... will be useful, not just to specialists in the subject, but to many others as well. Richard Harries, The Church Times