The Oxford handbook of English literature and theology / edited by Andrew Hass, David Jasper and Elisabeth Jay.

First published in 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

'Now and in England' / Elisabeth Jay -- The study of literature and theology / David Jasper -- Origins in the English tradition / Michael Fox -- Vernacular Bibles and prayer books / Lynne Long -- The Protestant and Catholic Reformations / Brian Cummings -- The Enlightenment / Rhodri Lewis -- Romanticism / Scott Masson -- The influence of German criticism / David E. Klemm -- The Victorians / T.R. Wright -- Modernism / Cleo McNelly Kearns -- Postmodernism / Kevin Hart -- The Bible as literature and sacred text / Peter S. Hawkins -- The Pentateuch / Tod Linafelt -- Judges / Timothy K. Beal -- Psalms / Alastair Hunter -- Song of songs / J. Cheryl Exum -- Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job / Kirsten Nielsen -- Prophetic literature / Yvonne Sherwood -- The synoptic gospels / George Aichele -- The Gospel of John / Adele Reinhartz -- Apocalyptic literature / Christopher Rowland -- Langland and Chaucer / Nicholas Watson -- Shakespeare and Marlowe / Thomas Healy -- Herbert and Donne / Helen Wilcox -- John Milton / Michael Lieb.

The eighteenth-century novel / Scott Robertson -- William Blake / Christopher Burdon -- Wordsworth and Coleridge / Simon Bainbridge -- George Eliot and Hardy / Norman Vance -- James Joyce / Valentine Cunningham -- Eliot, David Jones, and Auden / Stephen Medcalf -- Feminist revisioning / Heather Walton -- Cranmer and the collects / Donald Gray -- John Bunyan / Robert G. Collmer -- Bishop Butler / Lori Branch -- Keble and The Christian year / Kirstie Blair -- John Henry Newman / Ian Ker -- Matthew Arnold / Luke Ferretter -- C.S. Lewis / Cath Filmer-Davies -- Liturgy as literature / Bridget Nichols -- Evil and the God of love / Eric Ziolkowski -- Death and the afterlife / Tina Pippin -- Pastoral tradition in religious poetry / David Scott -- The passion story in literature / Paul Fiddes -- Possibilities of redemption through the novel / Daniel Boscaljon -- Body and word / Alison Jasper -- Visions of heaven and hell / Elena Volkova -- Feminism and patriarchy / Pamela Sue Anderson -- Salvation: personal and political / George Newlands -- The future of English literature and theology / Andrew Hass.

A volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology. The volume first offers a chronological account of key moments in the formation of the tradition; goes on to demonstrate literary ways of reading the Bible, theological ways of reading literature, and literary conceptions of theological texts; and finally explores the great themes that have preoccupied the Jewish and Christian traditions. --from publisher description.