Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory

1. Introduction
Cassandra Falke

Part I. Theory

2. Reading Theologically: Reduction and Reductio
Kevin Hart

3. After Theory, After Modernity: Reading Humbly
Jessica Hooten

4. An Ache in the Missing Limb: Biblical Origins of English Literary Criticism
Stephen Prickett

5. Good Reading: The Ethics of Christian Literary Theory
Cassandra Falke

6. Sites of Resistance: Christ and Materiality after the New Historicism
Mitchell M. Harris

7. Post-Secular Queer: Christianity, Queer Theory, and the Unsolvable Mysteries of Sexual Desire
Norman W. Jones

Part II. Applications

8. Dil Ulenspiegel: The Inverted Gospel and an Early Modern Clown
Thomas Lederer

9. Take and Eat: Eve, Mary, and Feminist Christianity
Martha Kalnin Diede

10. Humans, Animals, and Others
Philip Sampson

11. Theologizing Horror: Spirituality and the Gothic
Andrew Ng

12. The Secular Dream of a Christian Utopia: American Studies and Political Theology
Işıl Özcan

13. Heaven Came Down: Deconstruction, Christianity, and George Herbert’s ‘The Collar’
Michael Mattek

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Critical Theory, Christianity