Preface
Acknowledgments
1.Introduction
Part 1 Mutual Critiques
2. A Religious Critique of Literature: The Platonic Line
3. A Literary Critique of Religion: The Dantean Line
Part 2 Theoretic Concerns
4. Creation and Creativity
5. Beauty
6. Religious and Aesthetic Experience
7. Ethics
Part 3 Short Religio-Literary Readings of Six Perennial Themes
8. Love
9. Death
10. Evil
11. Suffering
12. Forgiveness
13.Saintliness
Notes
Index