Theology and literature after postmodernity

Theology and literature after postmodernity / edited by Zoë Lehmann Imfeld, Peter Hampson, and Alison Milbank ; foreword by Stanley Hauerwas.

"This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise. It engages in a dialogue with interdisciplinary approaches to literature in which theology is alert and respons...

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Main Authors: Hampson, Peter J., 1954- (Author, Editor), Milbank, Alison, 1954- (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Imfeld, Zoë Lehmann (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : T & T Clark-Bloomsbury, 2015.
Series:T & T Clark religion and the university series ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Theology in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Criticism.
Religion and literature.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Criticism
Religion and literature
Theology in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Hospitable conversations in theology and literature: re-opening a space to be human / The Editors. Part 1: Pedagogy. 1. Religion, History, and Faithful Reading / Susannah Brietz Monta, University of Notre Dame, USA; 2. Theology, Literature and Prayer: A Pedagogical Suggestion / Vittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame, US; 3. Bleak Liturgies: R.S. Thomas and "changes not to his liking" / Hester Jones, University of Bristol, UK
  • Part 2: Theological and Literary Reconstructions. 4. Belief and Imagination / Graham Ward, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK ; 5. Literary Apologetics beyond Postmodernism: Duality and Death in Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling / Alison Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK; 6. Cusa: A Pre-modern Postmodern Reader of Shakespeare / Johannes Hoff, Heythrop College, UK and Peter Hampson, Blackfriars Hall, UK; 7.'The One Life within Us and Abroad': Pathetic Fallacy Reconsidered / Gavin Hopps, University of St Andrews, UK ; 8. Love Among the Ruins: Hermeneutics of Theology and Literature in the University after the 20th century / Jeffrey Keuss, Seattle Pacific University, USA; 9. "Thrashing between Exoneration and Excoriation: Creating Narratives in We Need to Talk about Kevin / Zoë Lehmann Imfeld, University of Bern, Switzerland; 10. The Shakespeare Music: Eliot and von Balthasar on Shakespeare's "romances" and the "ultra-dramatic" / Aaron Riches, Instituto de Teología Lumen Gentium, Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein, Spain; 11. Fictioning Things: Gift and Narrative / John Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK; 12. Language, Reality and Desire in Augustine's De Doctrina / Rowan Williams, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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