Nick Cave

Roland Boer is Research Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author most recently of Marxist Criticism of the Bible (2003) and Symposia: Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation (2007) and the editor of Secularism and Biblical Studies (2010).

• Introduction 1.Searching the Holy Books 2.The Total Depravity of Cave's Literary World 3.Some Routine Atrocity, or Apocalyptic 4.Death 5.God, Pain and the Love Song 6.Jesus of the Mon, or Christology 7.Hearing Round Corners: Nick Cave Meets Ernst Bloch Conclusion: Gates to the Garden - The Search for Redemption