The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology

INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS ; 1. 'Now and in England' ; 2. The Study of Literature and Theology ; General Reading List ; THE FORMATION OF THE TRADITION ; 3. Origins in the English Tradition ; 4. Vernacular Bibles and Prayer Books and English Literature ; 5. The Protestant and Catholic Reformations ; 6. The Enlightenment ; 7. Romanticism ; 8. The Influence of German Criticism on English Literature ; 9. The Victorians ; 10. Modernism in Literature and Theology ; 11. Postmodernism ; LITERARY WAYS OF READING THE BIBLE ; 12. The Bible as Literature and Sacred Text ; 13. The Pentateuch ; 14. Judges ; 15. Literary Approaches to the Psalms ; 16. Song of Songs ; 17. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job in Literature ; 18. Prophetic Literature ; 19. Literary Ways of Reading the Synoptic Gospels ; 20. The Gospel of John ; 21. Apocalyptic Literature ; THEOLOGICAL WAYS OF READING LITERATURE ; 22. William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer ; 23. Shakespeare and Marlow ; 24. Herbert and Donne ; 25. John Milton ; 26. The Eighteenth-Century Novel ; 27. William Blake ; 28. Wordsworth and Coleridge ; 29. George Eliot and Thomas Hardy ; 30. James Joyce ; 31. T. S. Eliot, David Jones and W. H. Auden ; 32. The Feminist Literary Revisioning of Sacred Traditions ; THEOLOGY AS LITERATURE ; 33. Thomas Cranmer and the Collects ; 34. John Bunyan - Thinker and Tinker ; 35. Bishop Butler ; 36. John Keble and 'The Christian Year' ; 37. John Henry Newman ; 38. Matthew Arnold ; 39. The Theology of C. S. Lewis ; 40. Liturgy as Literature ; THE GREAT THEMES ; 41. Evil and the God of Love ; 42. Death and the Afterlife ; 43. The Pastoral Tradition in English Religious Poetry ; 44. The Passion Story in Literature ; 45. Possibilities of Redemption within Secular Texts ; 46. Body and Word ; 47. Visions of Heaven and Hell ; 48. Feminism and Patriarchy ; 49. Salvation - Personal and Political ; AFTERWORD ; 50. The Future of English Literature and Theology

The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology is monumental... These essays are finely executed and valuable. Wesley A. Kort, Journal of the American Academy of Religion ...a volume that is both particular and representative, one that successfully fulfils the double task of introducing the reader to current debates, and serving to consolidate the larger field. Emma Mason literature and theology