CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION xi
5. I CHRISTIAN EUROPE
6. 1. The Gospel of Mark as Myth 3
7. 2. An Early Renaissance Guide for the Perplexed: Bernardino of Siena's De inspirationibus 24
8. 3. Between Earth and Heaven: Ignatian Imagination and the Aesthetics of Liberation 50
9. 4. Erasmus, Education, and Folly 70
10. 5. Blind Prophecy: Milton's Figurative Mode in Paradise Lost and in Some Minor Poems 87
11. 6. A Lesson in Reading: George Eliot and the Typological Imagination 104
12. 7. Rouault and the Catholic Revival in France 119
13. 8. A Life of Allegory: Type and Pattern in Historical Narratives 134
14. II INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
15. 9. A View from the Far Side 153
16. 10. The Tyranny of the Secular Imagination 177
17. 11. Religious Polyphony in the Novels of Nuruddin 194
18. 12. The Social and Political Vision of Sri Aurobindo 206
19. 13. Feminist Providence: Esther, Vashti, and the Duty of Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century Hermeneutics 228
20. 14. The Buddhist Imagination in Chinese Fiction 250
21. 15. "Behind the Curtain": Derrida and the Religious Imagination 276
22. CONTRIBUTORS 297