Introduction

Cassandra Falke

1-8

Reading theologically

reduction and reductio

Kevin Hart

11-22

After theory, after modernity

reading humbly

Jessica Hooten

23-32

An ache in the missing limb

biblical origins of English literary criticism

Stephen Prickett

33-45

Good reading

the ethics of Christian literary theory

Cassandra Falke

46-56

Sites of resistance

christ and materiality after the new historicism

Mitchell M. Harris

57-69

Post-secular queer

christianity, queer theory, and the unsolvable mysteries of sexual desire

Norman W. Jones

70-85

Dil Ulenspiegel

the inverted gospel and an early modern clown

Thomas Lederer

89-105

Take and eat

Eve, Mary, and feminist Christianity

Martha Kalnin Diede

106-119

Humans, animals, and others

Philip Sampson

120-134

Theologizing horror

spirituality and the gothic

Andrew NG

135-147

The secular dream of a Christian utopia

American studies and political theology

148-161

Heaven came down

deconstruction, Christianity, and George Herbert's "The Collar"

Michael Mattek

162-174