The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology [Hardcover]

The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theologyis 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.

Introductory Essays
1. `Now and in England',Elisabeth Jay
2. The Study of Literature and Theology,David Jasper
General Reading List
The Formation of the Tradition
3. Origins in the English Tradition,Michael Fox
4. Vernacular Bibles and Prayer Books and English Literature,Lynne Long
5. The Protestant and Catholic Reformations,Brian Cummings
6. The Enlightenment,Rhodri Lewis
7. Romanticism,Scott Masson
8. The Influence of German Criticism on English Literature,David E. Klemm
9. The Victorians,T. R. Wright
10. Modernism in Literature and Theology,Cleo Kearns
11. Postmodernism,Kevin Hart
Literary Ways of Reading the Bible
12. The Bible as Literature and Sacred Text,Peter S. Hawkins
13. The Pentateuch,Tod Linafelt
14. Judges,Timothy K. Beal
15. Literary Approaches to the Psalms,Alastair Hunter
16. Song of Songs,J. Cheryl Exum
17. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job in Literature,Kirsten Nielsen
18. PlÃ.