Believing in the Text

The essays in this book represent ten years of the work of the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts in the University of Glasgow. Seemingly diverse, they are bound together by a common belief that theology flourishes in an interdisciplinary and transcultural environment. It cannot be an abstract concern, but is rooted in political circumstances, and responds to developments in society and the arts. That is why there are essays on film and contemporary artists like Mona Hatoum, as well as more traditional studies of theology read through and in literature. The Centre has always been an international meeting place, and contributions range well beyond the Western Christian, seeking new roots for theological thinking in the arts and culture of a postmodern world.

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The Editors: David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology and until recently was Dean of Divinity at the University of Glasgow. He was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts.
George Newlands is Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow, and was the Director of the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts from 1998 to 2002.

Inhalt
Contents: David Jasper/George Newlands: Introduction David Jasper: The Subject on Trial and Baudrillard's Nightmare S. Brent Plate: T/here: Conversing and Traversing Julia Kristeva's Writings J. Stephen Fountain: The Trace of the (M)other: Liminality and Maternity in Dead Man Walking Andrew W. Hass: Seeing Through a Glass Face to Face Elizabeth Philpot: Susanna: Indecent Attraction / Fatal Exposure Peter Stiles: To the Threshold: Window Scenes in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth Jeffrey F. Keuss: 'Seeing' Adam Bede - An Iconographic Reading Catherine Raine: Sin and Theodicy - Victorian and Modern Style David E. Klemm: Re-entering the Magic Theatre: The Trace of the Other in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf Darren J. N. Middleton: Scratching the Barthian Itch: A Theological Reading of John Updike's Roger's Version George Newlands: Theology, Culture and the Arts Christopher Burdon: Christian Worship in the Third Millenium: Homage or Celebration? Alison Jasper: Word as Flesh: The Sign of Female Circumcision Kiyoshi Tsuchiya: A Response to Postmodern Theology.