Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dickens' Theology: A Hard Nut to Crack -- 1 "Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth" and Dickens' Non-Christian Theology...
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dickens' Theology: A Hard Nut to Crack -- 1 "Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth" and Dickens' Non-Christian Theology -- 2 Consecrated Abomination: Pilgrimage and Churchyard Homage in Dickens' Novels -- 3 Dickens and the Specter of Materialism: The Spiritual Significance of Ghosts in the Christmas Books and Ghost Stories -- 4 Dickens Demystified: The Jesuitical Journey of Ebenezer Scrooge: Through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola -- 5 "For Whom the Bell Tolls": Dickens' Barnaby Rudge -- 6 "Gazing at All the Church and Chapel Going": Social Views of Religious Nonconformity in Dickens' Fiction -- 7 Needful Things: Dickens, Social Justice, and the Meaning of Human Work -- 8 The Gospel of Modernity: Idolatry as the Road to Grace in David Copperfield and Great Expectations -- 9 Unheavenly and Broken Homes in Dickens' Novels -- 10 Ghosts of Dickens' Past: The Death of Judaism in Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend -- 11 Theological Shifts in Dickensian Narratives Before and After Darwin's Origin: Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend -- 12 Teeming City, Tangled Web: Dickens' Affinity With Darwin -- 13 Theology of the Street: Dickensian Characters for the Twenty-First Century -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Contexts -- I 'Progressive Revelation': The Bible in...
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Contexts -- I 'Progressive Revelation': The Bible in Victorian England -- II 'What Is the True Religion?' -- III Providential Meaning: An Evolving Story -- (a) 'The grand narrative' -- (b) Nineteenth-century providential thinking -- (c) Reading the Book of Nature -- IV The Providential Novel: Generic Conventions and Concerns -- (a) Plotting -- (b) Genre -- (c) Temporality -- (d) Realism -- (e) 'Omniscience' -- V 'The Self in Moral Space' 127 -- Notes -- Chapter 2: In the Beginning: From Pickwick to Scrooge -- I The Moment of Creation and the Fall into Knowledge -- II Towards the 'Carol Philosophy' -- III A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas -- IV The Incarnation, Temporality, and the Doctrine of Anamnesis -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Dombey and Son : 'What the Waves Were Always Saying' -- I Biblical Intertextuality -- II Eschatology and the Coming of the Kingdom -- III God and Nature -- IV Towards Apocalypse -- V Beatitudes -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Bleak House : Expecting a Judgement -- I 'Responsible Consciousness' -- II Original Sin: The Chancery Metaphor -- III The parousia Household in Victorian Domestic Space -- IV 'The Letter and the Answer' -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Little Dorrit and the Coming of the Kingdom -- I Mrs Clennam's Bible -- II Degrees of Freedom: 'the Prison of This Lower World' -- III The Gospel of Mammonism -- IV The Child of the Marshalsea -- V 'What Nature Is' -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Last Things: Redemption, Resurrection, and the Life Everlasting -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
