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Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology

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ISBN-10: 0199271976

ISBN-13: 9780199271979

Edition: 2007

Authors: Andrew Hass, David Jasper, Elisabeth Jay

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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 theologicaltexts; 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…    
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List price: $185.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 908
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.69" long x 2.36" tall
Weight: 3.740
Language: English

Dr Heather Walton is Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow, UK.

Elisabeth Jay is Emeritus Professor of English at Oxford Brookes University. Her interests lie predominantly in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and she has published widely on the fiction, prose and poetry of this period. She is on the Advisory Boards of the journals Literature & Theology (OUP) and English (OUP) and of the Institute of English Studies (University of London).

Introductory Essays
`Now and in England'
The Study of Literature and Theology General Reading List The Formation of the Tradition
Origins in the English Tradition
Vernacular Bibles and Prayer Books and English Literature
The Protestant and Catholic Reformations
The Enlightenment
Romanticism
The Influence of German Criticism on English Literature
The Victorians
Modernism in Literature and Theology
Postmodernism Literary Ways of Reading the Bible
The Bible as Literature and Sacred Text
The Pentateuch
Judges
Literary Approaches to the Psalms
Song of Songs
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job in Literature
Prophetic Literature
Literary Ways of Reading the Synoptic Gospels
The Gospel of John
Apocalyptic Literature Theological Ways of Reading Literature
William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer
Shakespeare and Marlow
Herbert and Donne
John Milton
The Eighteenth-Century Novel
William Blake
Wordsworth and Coleridge
George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
James Joyce
T. S. Eliot, David Jones and W. H. Auden
The Feminist Literary Revisioning of Sacred Traditions Theology as Literature
Thomas Cranmer and the Collects
John Bunyan - Thinker and Tinker
Bishop Butler
John Keble and `The Christian Year'
John Henry Newman
Matthew Arnold
The Theology of C. S. Lewis
Liturgy as Literature The Great Themes
Evil and the God of Love
Death and the Afterlife
The Pastoral Tradition in English Religious Poetry
The Passion Story in Literature
Possibilities of Redemption within Secular Texts
Body and Word
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Feminism and Patriarchy
Salvation - Personal and Political Afterword
The Future of English Literature and Theology