Oxford: Oxford University Press. — 1979 — 264 p. — ISBN10: 0195024532; ISBN13: 978-0195024531.
Studies the ways in which imaginative literature expresses religious meaning and considers the contribution of literary criticism to religious scholarship, maintaining that a reciprocity exists between literature and religion.
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The Religious Use and Abuse of Literature: Notes Toward a Short History.
Forms of Religious Meaning in Literature.
The Place of the Literary Critic in Religious Studies, The American Writer and the Formation of an American Mind: Literature, Culture, and Their Relation to Ultimate Values.
American Literature and the Imagination of Otherness, Postscript.