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Subject(s)

• Christianity and literature—Great Britain [Browse]
• Theology in literature [Browse]
• English literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Bible and literature [Browse]
• Bible—In literature [Browse]

Related name

• Hass, Andrew [Browse]
• Jasper, David [Browse]
• Jay, Elisabeth [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

A volume of essays in which scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the evolving relationship between English literature and theology, this work also offers a chronological account of key moments in the formation of the tradition, and explores great themes that have preoccupied the Jewish and Christian traditions.

Notes

Originally published: 2007.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• 'Now and in England' / Elisabeth Jay
• The study of literature and theology / David Jasper
• Origins in the English tradition / Michael Fox
• Vernacular Bibles and prayer books / Lynne Long
• The Protestant and Catholic Reformations / Brian Cummings
• The Enlightenment / Rhodri Lewis
• Romanticism / Scott Masson
• The influence of German criticism / David E. Klemm
• The Victorians / T. R. Wright
• Modernism / Cleo McNelly Kearns
• Postmodernism / Kevin Hart
• The Bible as literature and sacred text / Peter S. Hawkins
• The Pentateuch / Tod Linafelt
• Judges / Timothy K. Beal
• Psalms / Alastair Hunter
• Song of songs / J. Cheryl Exum
• Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job / Kirsten Nielsen
• Prophetic literature / Yvonne Sherwood
• The synoptic gospels / George Aichele
• The Gospel of John / Adele Reinhartz
• Apocalyptic literature / Christopher Rowland
• Langland and Chaucer / Nicholas Watson
• Shakespeare and Marlowe / Thomas Healy
• Herbert and Donne / Helen Wilcox
• John Milton / Michael Lieb --
• The eighteenth-century novel / Scott Robertson
• William Blake / Christopher Burdon
• Wordsworth and Coleridge / Simon Bainbridge
• George Eliot and Hardy / Norman Vance
• James Joyce / Valentine Cunningham
• Eliot, David Jones, and Auden / Stephen Medcalf
• Feminist revisioning / Heather Walton
• Cranmer and the collects / Donald Gray
• John Bunyan / Robert G. Collmer
• Bishop Butler / Lori Branch
• Keble and The Christian year / Kirstie Blair
• John Henry Newman / Ian Ker
• Matthew Arnold / Luke Ferretter
• C. S. Lewis / Cath Filmer-Davies
• Liturgy as literature / Bridget Nichols
• Evil and the God of love / Eric Ziolkowski
• Death and the afterlife / Tina Pippin
• Pastoral tradition in religious poetry / David Scott
• The passion story in literature / Paul Fiddes
• Possibilities of redemption through the novel / Daniel Boscaljon
• Body and word / Alison Jasper
• Visions of heaven and hell / Elena Volkova
• Feminism and patriarchy / Pamela Sue Anderson
• Salvation: personal and political / George Newlands
• The future of English literature and theology / Andrew Hass.

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Other title(s)

• English literature and theology
• Oxford handbooks online.

ISBN

• 9780191577376
• 0191577375

LCCN

2006038887

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