Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility

By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing and provocative responses to well-established literary and critical theories.

By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing and provocative responses to well-established literary and critical theories.

On Reader Responsibility: An Introduction; C.A.B.Joseph & G.W.Ortiz A Theory of Ethical Reading Some Dilemmas of an Ethics of Literature; L.K.Altes Reading and the Biblical Only Irresponsible People Would Go into the Desert for Forty Days: Jim Crace's Quarantine or The Diary of Another Madman; D.Jasper The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Rhetoricizing the Foundations; R.J.Hurley Samuel Beckett's Use of the Bible and the Responsibility of the Reader; S.Athanasopoulou-Kypriou On Trial: Mikhail Bakhtin and Abram Tertz's Address to 'God'; L.Owens Bible and Ethics: Moral Formation and Analogical Imagination; J.Nissen Reading and the Literary The Playwright, the Novelist, and the Comedian: A Case Study in Audience Responsibility; D.Visser Dialogue in Gandhi's Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule or the Reader as Truth-Seeker; C.A.B.Joseph Responsibly Performing Vulnerability: Salman Rushdie's Fury and Edgar Laurence Doctorow's City of God; E.Borgman The "Indian" Character of Modern Hindi Drama: Neo-Sanskritic, Pro-Western Naturalistic, or Natavistic Dramas?; D.Dimitrova Apocryphal Imitation of the Feminine - Judith of Bethulia ; E.Philpot Revolting Fantasies: Reviewing the Cinematic Image as Fruitful Ground for Creative Theological Interpretations in the Company of Julia Kristeva; A.Jasper Literature as Resistance: Hannah Arendt on Storytelling; D.De Schutter