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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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On Reader Responsibility: An Introduction
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A Theory of Ethical Reading
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Front Matter
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Reading and the Biblical
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Front Matter
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Reading and the Literary
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
"Theology needs the literary imagination and, indeed, will not survive without it. However, a responsible imagination is never imagination for imagination's sake, for it is connected to the gendered, ethnic, class, national, and postcolonial realities of identity, of real people living in the world. The essays collected here show where, when, and how the creative forces of literature can meet theology, and how such an intersection makes a difference for that practical mode of thinking we call ethics." - S. Brent Plate, author of Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics, editor of Religion, Art, and Visual Culture
"These essays in Theology and Literature enable their reader to discover how a strongly centrifugal effect, produced by a rich array of texts, locations, and issues, can coincide with the centripetal effect of securing reading as moral, spiritual practice." - Professor Wesley A. Kort, Chair, Department of Religion, Duke University
"In this new millennium, where the question of responsibility personal, corporate, national, global hits us with new force, the old jouissance of textual engagement has given way to a renewed ethical imperative. It is reassuring to see a volume like this take seriously the question of reading, and indeed writing, responsibly, not by tossing out the last fifty years, but by provoking us into new ways of appropriating the textual concerns of yesterday for the new ethical demands of today. This is a timely and important book, therefore: diverse in its range of genre and tradition, yet singular in its focus on what it means to be responsible with the texts and theories that we have inherited and that we now employ." - Andrew W. Hass, University of Stirling
About the authors
CLARA A.B. JOSEPH is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility
Editors: Williams Ortiz Gaye, Clara A B Joseph
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982995
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Gaye Williams Ortiz and Clara A. B. Joseph 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7198-2Published: 14 June 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53334-3Published: 14 June 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8299-5Published: 12 May 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 240
Topics: Christian Theology, Literature, general, Literary Theory