The New Testament and the Literary Imagination (David Jasper) - Softcover

Literature and religion are never far apart. The greatest literary achievements of the West, from Aeschylus to Dante to Shakespeare, cut deeply into the soul of humanity and stir in us those ultimate questions of existence, truth, and beauty which can only be answered, if they are ever answered at all, by religious commitment or the equally passionate rejection of theology and its speculation. - from the General Editor's Preface

David Jasper is Professor in Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He is coeditor of "Religion and Literature" and coauthor of "The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology".