Product Description: American literature offers exceptional resources for understanding the complex role religion has played in the life of the culture and in the experience of its people. In recent decades, however, the academic study of that literature has largely treated religion, in the words of a noted scholar, as an "invisible domain...read more

Product Description: In Believing Again Roger Lundin brilliantly explores the cultural consequences of the rather sudden nineteenth-century emergence of unbelief as a widespread social and intellectual option in the English-speaking world. / Lundin's narrative focuses on key poets and novelists from the past two centuries ― Dostoevsky, Dickinson, Melville, Auden, and more ― showing how they portray the modern mind and heart balancing between belief and unbelief...read more

Product Description: In this remarkable work, Roger Lundin seeks the source of American moral and cultural authority in the shift from nature to experience figured in the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. While the pragmatic tradition concludes that experience must generate the very light that will lead us out of its own darkness, From Nature to Experience returns to religion for illumination and truth...read more

Product Description: Despite the crucial importance of religion in American life, the place of religion in literary studies continues to take a backseat to trendier academic causes. "There Before Us" helps remedy this deficiency by exploring the place of faith in the lives of writers beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson, who called in 1837 for the creation of a national culture free from "the learning of other lands" and from traditional religion...read more

Selected as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1998, this fascinating biography by Roger Lundin shows why Emily Dickinson is not only one of America's finest poets but also one of the major religious thinkers of her age.

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The question of interpretation is as old as language itself. In today's postmodern context, however, the task of hermeneutics has become frustratingly complex. This timely collection of essays by ten leading scholars explores the diversity of contemporary Christian hermeneutical theory and practice. The format of the book consists of a major essay and a response in each of four disciplines - philosophy, English, sociology, and theology - leading to differences in definition and practice, but with the common framework of a Christian perspective. In their insightful handling of the most challenging contemporary issues and literature on interpretive theory, the authors seek to negotiate the narrow straits between absolute certainty and interpretive license. And as they chart the turbulent waters of the postmodern world, they serve as savvy guides to assist us in our difficult passage to the truth.

Product Description: This book offers a broad-ranging account of contemporary American culture, the complex network of symbols, practices, and beliefs at the heart of our society. Lundin explores the historical background of some of our "postmodern" culture's central beliefs and considers their crucial ethical and theological implications...read more

Gathers sermons, letters, essays, speeches, and selections from journals, memoirs, and novels that deal with piety and spiritual experience