Includes bibliographical references (p. xv-xvi).

The lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth -- The life of Jesus critically examined / David Friedrich Strauss -- The study of poetry / Matthew Arnold -- The point of view for my work as an author / S�ren Kierkegaard -- Religion and literature / T.S. Eliot -- Theology of culture / Paul Tillich -- The wild prayer of longing / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. -- The great code: the Bible and literature / Northrop Frye -- The book of Genesis -- The gospel of John -- Popol Vuh -- The woman who fell from the sky -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- Extracts from Adam's diary / Mark Twain -- Ode / Joseph Addison -- The man who died / D.H. Lawrence -- The presence of the word / Walter Ong -- Psalm 130, Ezekiel 3, Revelation 10 -- The city of God / Augustine of Hippo -- Scivias / Hildegard of Bingen -- The interior castle / Teresa of Avila -- Table talk / Martin Luther -- Fear and trembling / S�ren Kierkegaard -- The gift of death / Jacques Derrida -- Jachid and Jechidah / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The Bible and the imagination / Paul Ricoeur -- Matthew 26:17-29; Luke 22:7-23 -- The Bacchae of Euripides: a communion rite / Wole Soyinka -- Jewish and Christian prayers -- Prasna Upanishad -- Revelations of divine love / Julian of Norwich -- The seven storey mountain / Thomas Merton -- Batter my heart, three-personed God / John Donne -- Love / George Herbert -- Moby Dick: or the whale / Herman Melville -- A month of Sundays / John Updike -- The book of Job / J.B. / Archibald MacLeish -- Grace abounding to the chief of sinners / John Bunyan -- The book of Ezekiel -- And did those feet in ancient time / William Blake -- Riders in the chariot / Patrick White -- Susanna/The book of Daniel -- All's well that ends well / William Shakespeare -- The parable of Simeon and Bar Kappara -- The trial / Franz Kafka -- The gospel of Mark -- The gospel according to Mark / Jorge Luis Borges -- The 'sacred' text and the community / Paul Ricoeur -- Intimations of Christianity among the ancient Greeks / Simone Weil -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- Faust / J.W. von Goethe -- The garden of love / William Blake -- Confessions / Augustine of Hippo -- Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath -- Title divine is mine! / Emily Dickinson -- The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- Under the volcano / Malcolm Lowry -- Liquid paper ; M3 / Peter Meinke -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- Murder in the cathedral / T.S. Eliot -- The acts of the Apostles -- Confessions / Augustine of Hippo -- Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin -- Adam's curse / William Butler Yeats -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- The book of Daniel -- The atrocity exhibition / J.G. Ballard -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridte -- Wise blood / Flannery O'Connor -- The wild girl / Mich�ele Roberts -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Sister outsider / Audre Lorde -- Life after God / Douglas Coupland -- All at one point / Italo Calvino -- The land of heart's desire / Tamiki Hara -- Nots / Mark C. Taylor -- Overpopulation and art / John Cage -- The sexuality of Christ in Renaissance art and in modern oblivion / Leo Steinberg -- Malone dies / Samuel Beckett -- The book of margins / Edmund Jab�es.