Images Of Belief In Literature 1st Ed. 1984

Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-6 Religion and Imagination (Relating Religion and Literature) — a syllabus....Pages 7-23 Mystery and Mediation: Reflections on Flannery O’Connor and Joan Didion....Pages 24-41 Job and Sophocles....Pages 42-51 Horae Canonicae: Auden’s Vision of A Rood — a Study in Coherence....Pages 52-80 Poetry and Prophecy: Bishop Lowth and The Hebrew Scriptures in Eighteenth-century England....Pages 81-103 Literature and Commitment: ‘Choosing Sides’....Pages 104-121 Simone Weil — Sacrifice: a Problem for Theology....Pages 122-137 Middlemarch as a Religious Novel, or Life without God....Pages 138-152 ‘Heaven’s Lidger Here’: Herbert’s Temple and Seventeenth-century Devotion....Pages 153-168 Exegesis: Literary and Divine....Pages 169-178 Story: Towards a Christian Theory of Narrative....Pages 179-190 Back Matter....Pages 191-195