Coleridge, the Bible, and Religion

JEFFREY W. BARBEAU is an associate professor of Theology at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA.

• Revealed' Religion and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit Christ, the Word: The Coleridgean Creed The Scriptures: The Mirror of Faith The Scriptures: The Interpretation of the Old Testament The Scriptures: The Interpretation of the New Testament The Church: Tradition as the Master-Key of Interpretation The Holy Spirit: Reason and the Divine Image The Preacher: Imagination and the Inspired Prophet Conclusion: The Reception of Coleridge's Religious System

"The scholarship is massive yet focused and the context is exhilarating. It shows Coleridge's influence throughout the nineteenth centuryas a philosopher, political thinker, and theologian in Great Britain,Germany, and America" - Marilyn Gaull, Editor of The Wordsworth Circle "...Barbeau focuses on Coleridge's seminal and posthumously published Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit...offe[ing] much insight into the broad terrain of British Anglicanism, both in its political and ecclesiastical manifsetations." - Anglican Theological Review