Images of Belief in Literature

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Religion and Imagination (Relating Religion and Literature) — a syllabus....Pages 7-23
Mystery and Mediation: Reflections on Flannery O’Connor and Joan Didion....Pages 24-41
Job and Sophocles....Pages 42-51
Horae Canonicae: Auden’s Vision of A Rood — a Study in Coherence....Pages 52-80
Poetry and Prophecy: Bishop Lowth and The Hebrew Scriptures in Eighteenth-century England....Pages 81-103
Literature and Commitment: ‘Choosing Sides’....Pages 104-121
Simone Weil — Sacrifice: a Problem for Theology....Pages 122-137
Middlemarch as a Religious Novel, or Life without God....Pages 138-152
‘Heaven’s Lidger Here’: Herbert’s Temple and Seventeenth-century Devotion....Pages 153-168
Exegesis: Literary and Divine....Pages 169-178
Story: Towards a Christian Theory of Narrative....Pages 179-190
Back Matter....Pages 191-195