Publisher's Synopsis
This series attempts to provide an interdisclipinary introduction to the study of literature and religion, and is concerned with the issues of the imagination, literary perceptions and an understanding of poetics for theology and religious studies, and the underlying religious implications of so much literature and literary criticism.;This collection of essays examines the rhetorical qualities of the earliest liturgies and how their language developed under the pressure of theological and social demands. Professional liturgists, poets, linguists, philosophers, musicians, literary critics, classicists and theologians are all represented in this discussion. The volume claims to take no sides in the debate between liturgical "traditionalists" and "reformers" and the contributors are from different denominations.
