Literature and Theology provides a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue, inviting both close textual analysis and broader theoretical speculation as ways of exploring how religion is embedded within culture. Contributions, addressing questions of interest to both the disciplines of literature and theology, are encouraged to confront and challenge traditional modes of discourse within a wide range of related fields, encompassing biblical criticism, literary criticism, philosophy, politics, history, cultural studies, and contemporary critical theory or practice.
Volume 20, Number 3, September 2006
CONTENTS :
Articles :
ANDY SUTTON-JONES : A ‘Book of Starres’ or ‘A Starred Text’? George Herbert Meets Roland Barthes
SIMON MARSDEN : ‘Vain are the thousand creeds’: Wuthering Heights, the Bible and Liberal Protestantism
WILLIAM FRANKE : Primordial Sacrifice, Typology and the Theological Vocation of Literature: Extending Gian Balsamo's Interpretation of Joyce and Christian Epic
GRAHAM PECHEY : Penultimate Words: The Life of the ‘Loophole’ in Mikhail Bakhtin
STEFAN SKRIMSHIRE : A Political Theology of the Absurd? Albert Camus and Simone Weil on Social Transformation
THEO HOBSON : Strange Calling: A Theological Approach to Larkin
Review article :
JEREMY CARRETTE : Bringing Philosophy to Life. A Review Article in Memory of Grace M. Jantzen (1948–2006) Book Reviews : JOHANNA I. HARRIS : Mary Astell and John Norris: Letters Concerning the Love of God. Edited by E. Derek Taylor and Melvyn New. Hertfordshire: Ashgate, 2005, vii + 263 pp. EWEN MILLARE : Archaeologies of the Future, The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. By Frederic Jameson. London: Verso, 2005, xxvi + 431 pp. DAVID JASPER : Losing Our Heads: Beheadings in Literature and Culture. By Regina Janes. New York: New York University Press, 2005, xv + 254pp. DAVID JASPER : Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love. By Rowan Williams. London: Continuum, 2005, xiii + 172 pp. £8.99 (pbk). TORJER A. OLSEN : Understanding Theology and Popular Culture. By Gordon Lynch. Oxford: Blackwell. 2005, xv + 236 pp. MATTHEW FORREST LOWE : Melville: His World and Work. By Andrew Delbanco. London: Picador, 2005, xxx + 415 pp.