Believing in the Text

The Editors: David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology and until recently was Dean of Divinity at the University of Glasgow. He was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts.George Newlands is Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow, and was the Director of the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts from 1998 to 2002.

• Contents: David Jasper/George Newlands: Introduction – David Jasper: The Subject on Trial and Baudrillard’s Nightmare – S. Brent Plate: T/here: Conversing and Traversing Julia Kristeva’s Writings – J. Stephen Fountain: The Trace of the (M)other: Liminality and Maternity in Dead Man Walking – Andrew W. Hass: Seeing Through a Glass Face to Face – Elizabeth Philpot: Susanna: Indecent Attraction / Fatal Exposure – Peter Stiles: To the Threshold: Window Scenes in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth – Jeffrey F. Keuss: ‘Seeing’ Adam Bede - An Iconographic Reading – Catherine Raine: Sin and Theodicy - Victorian and Modern Style – David E. Klemm: Re-entering the Magic Theatre: The Trace of the Other in Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf – Darren J. N. Middleton: Scratching the Barthian Itch: A Theological Reading of John Updike’s Roger’s Version – George Newlands: Theology, Culture and the Arts – Christopher Burdon: Christian Worship in the Third Millenium: Homage or Celebration? – Alison Jasper: Word as Flesh: The Sign of Female Circumcision – Kiyoshi Tsuchiya: A Response to Postmodern Theology.