Theology and Literature after Postmodernity

Zoë Lehmann Imfeld is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland.Peter Hampson is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK.Alison Milbank is Associate Professor in Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK.

• Table of ContentsForewordStanley Hauerwas, Duke University, USAIntroduction: Hospitable Conversations in Theology and Literature: Re-opening a Space to be Human The EditorsPart One: Pedagogy1. Religion, History, and Faithful ReadingSusannah Brietz Monta, University of Notre Dame, USA2. Theology, Literature and Prayer: A Pedagogical SuggestionVittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame, US3. Bleak Liturgies: R. S. Thomas and ‘changes not to his liking’Hester Jones, University of Bristol, UKPart Two: Theological and Literary Reconstructions4. Belief and ImaginationGraham Ward, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK5. Literary Apologetics beyond Postmodernism: Duality and Death in Philip Pullman and J.K. RowlingAlison Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK6. Cusa: A Pre-modern Postmodern Reader of ShakespeareJohannes Hoff, Heythrop College, UK and Peter Hampson, Blackfriars Hall, UK7.'The One Life within Us and Abroad': Pathetic Fallacy Reconsidered Gavin Hopps, University of St Andrews, UK 8. Love Among the Ruins: Hermeneutics of Theology and Literature in the University after the 20th centuryJeffrey Keuss, Seattle Pacific University, USA9. ‘Thrashing between Exoneration and Excoriation: Creating Narratives in We Need to Talk about KevinZoë Lehmann Imfeld, University of Bern, Switzerland10. The Shakespeare Music: Eliot and von Balthasar on Shakespeare’s ‘romances’ and the ‘ultra-dramatic’Aaron Riches, Instituto de Teología Lumen Gentium, Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein, Spain11. Fictioning Things: Gift and NarrativeJohn Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK12. Language, Reality and Desire in Augustine’s De DoctrinaRowan Williams, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UKIndex

Of the contributions to this volume John Milton might well have exclaimed, "O how comely it is, and how reviving to the spirits of just men long oppressed" by the "disciplinary division and animosity in the modern university between Literature and Theology" ... For here is a book advocating a revolutionary breach of the old established boundaries between the two above-mentioned disciplines in favour of a theological approach to literature and a literary approach to theology.