Religion and Literature: A Reader

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Robert Detweiler, David Jasper
Westminster John Knox Press, 2000 M01 1 - 191 pages
Featuring a selection from over 80 key texts, this anthology aims to help the reader to understand the common origins of religious expression and of literature. The texts included cover classical literature, the Bible, English and European classics and contemporary works.
 

Selected pages

Contents

David Friedrich Strauss The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
5
Paul Tillich Theology of Culture
12
The Book of Genesis
19
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
26
H Lawrence The Man Who Died
34
Psalm 130 Ezekiel 3 Revelation 10
41
Teresa of Avila The Interior Castle
48
Martin Luther Table Talk
50
Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano
122
Ovid Metamorphoses
130
CONVERSION AND ECSTASY
136
John Milton Paradise Lost
142
J G Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition
148
Further Reading
154
Douglas Coupland Life after God
160
INTERMEDIALITY
167

John Updike A Month of Sundays
78
The Parable of Simeon and Bar Kappara
97
John Milton Paradise Lost
111
Edmond Jabès The Book of Margins
171
Acknowledgments
184
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Common terms and phrases

Abraham ancient angels apocalypse Augustine of Hippo Bacchae Bar Kappara Bible biblical blessed blood body century chapter Christ Christian church Copyright creation critical culture Daniel darkness death divine door-keeper earth Edmond Jabès English evil excerpt experience explores eyes face faith Father FAUST fiction garden Genesis God's Gospel Greek hand heart heaven Hildegard of Bingen holy human images imagination interpretation Isaac J. G. Ballard Jechidah Jesus John Kierkegaard language light Liquid Paper literary literature and religion living London look Lord Malcolm Lowry MARGARETA modern move myth narrative never novel parable Paradise Paul Paul Ricoeur Penguin poem poet poetry Popol Vuh postmodern Prayer reader religion and literature religious Reprinted by permission revelation sacred text scripture sense Søren Kierkegaard soul spirit story T. S. Eliot themes theology things thought tion tradition translated tree vision voice William Blake woman word writing York

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About the author (2000)

Robert Detweiler is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He also served as the Institute's Director for eight years. He has published extensively on the intersection of religion, literature and culture. David Jasper is Professor in Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He is coeditor of Religion and Literature and coauthor of The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology.

Bibliographic information

TitleReligion and Literature: A Reader
EditorsRobert Detweiler, David Jasper
PublisherWestminster John Knox Press, 2000
ISBN0664258468, 9780664258467
Length191 pages
  
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