Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Notes toward a Supreme Addiction: The Theology Fiction of William Blake and Philip K. Dick -- 3. God's Little Mountains: Young Geoffrey Hill and the Problem of Religious Poetry -- 4. Religion, Truth and the 'New Aestheticism' -- 5. The Deconstruction of Christianity: From the Hand of God to the Hand of Man -- 6. Deity in Dispatches: The Crimean Beginnings of Muscular Christianity -- 7. Israel Zangwill, Jewish Identity and Visceral Religion -- 8. I Am Not Walter Benjamin -- 9. 'The Oldest Dream of All': Heaven in Contemporary Fiction -- 10. De Quincey's Uses of the Bible: Biblical Time and Psychological Time -- 11. Re-imagining Biblical Exegesis -- 12. Saving Literary Criticism -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.