Introduction; C.Falke PART I Reading Theologically: Reduction and Reductio ; K.Hart After Theory, After Modernity; J.Hooten An Ache in the Missing Limb: Biblical Origins of English Literary Criticism; S.Prickett Good Reading: The Ethics of Christian Literary Theory; C.Falke Sites of Resistance: Christ and Materiality after the New Historicism; M.M.Harris Post-Secular Queer: Christianity, Queer Theory and the Unsolvable Mysteries of Sexual Desire; N.Jones Part II Dil Ulenspiegel: The Inverted Gospel and an Early Modern Clown; T.Lederer Take and Eat: Eve, Mary, and Feminist Christianity; M.Diede Humans, Animals and Others; P.Sampson Theologizing Horror: Spirituality and the Gothic; A.Ng The Secular Dream of a Christian Utopia: Tracing Puritanism in American Studies; I.Özcan Heaven Came Down: Deconstruction, Christianity, and George Herbert's The Collar ; M.Mattek Endnotes References Index

Dealing with the historical and thematic intersections of Christianity and critical theory, this collection brings together a diversity of specialist scholars in the area. Building on recent discourses in theology as well as their knowledge of hermeneutic and critical traditions, they examine major themes in contemporary critical theory.

MARTHA DIEDE Associate Professor of English, Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington, USA
MITCHELL M. HARRIS Assistant Professor of English, Augustana College, USA
KEVIN HART Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University of Virginia, USA
NORMAN JONES Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University, USA
THOMAS LEDERER Independent Scholar
JESSICA LYNICE HOOTEN Assistant Professor, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, USA
MIKE MATTEK Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, USA
ANDREW NG Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University, Malaysia
ISIL OZCAN Research Assistant, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
STEPHEN PRICKETT Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Australia
PHILIP SAMPSON Independent Scholar