This book is an exercise in rhetoric which is itself suspicious of the rhetorical arts. Its concerns are profoundly theological, though perhaps offensive to theology as it is often practiced in the church and the academy.

Lively and lucid, this outstanding work stretches from the Bible – perhaps still the greatest of our desert texts – through to contemporary experiences of the desert.

Literature and religion are never far apart.

This book conveniently and accessibly surveys major biblical interpreters and approaches to hermeneutics from the patristic period to the present days.

An interdisciplinary study of Romanticism which focuses on the reception of the Biblical canon in poetry, art and theory.

The texts included cover classical literature, the Bible, English and European classics and contemporary works.

Examining the roots of the relationship between literature and theology, this book offers the first serious attempt to probe the deep theological purposes of the study of literature.

The final part of the book considers Coleridge’s later prose, linking his reflections upon poetry with an epistemology, which he learnt principally from Kant and Fichtee in a discussion of revelation and radical evil.