Part I. Relationships between religion and literature --
Religion and literature / T.S. Eliot --
Literature and religion / J. Hillis Miller --
Christianity and literature / C.S. Lewis --
Hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes / R.W.B. Lewis --
Novelist and believer / Flannery O'Connor --
Literature and belief / David Daiches --
The relation of theology to literary criticism / Roy W. Battenhouse --
The moral evaluation of literature / Frederick Pottle --
Christian literary scholars / Joseph H. Summers --
Postscript : Christianity and art / W.H. Auden --
Part II. Religious backgrounds of modern literature --
The name and nature of our period-style / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. --
Modern literature and the death of God / Charles I. Glicksberg --
Three images of man / Edmund Fuller --
An awareness of solitude / Stuart Barton Babbage --
The decline of the novel / Edwin Muir --
The changing pattern : contrasts in medieval and modern poetry / Martin Turnell --
The loss of the histrionic and the modern quandary of theology / Tom F. Driver --
Part III. Religious dimensions in modern literature --
Franz Kafka : the atheist's problem of God / Gabriel Vahanian --
Christ as tragic hero : Conrad's Lord Jim / Edwin Moseley --
Camus' Sisyphean hero / David Anderson --
D.H. Lawrence : the quarrel with Christianity / Graham Hough --
William Butler Yeats : the religion of a poet / Austin Warren --
T.S. Eliot : from Ash Wednesday to Murder in the cathedral / R.P. Blackmur --
Mr. W.H. Auden : towards a new Christian synthesis / Amos Wilder --
William Faulkner : vision of good and evil / Cleanth Brooks --
A ritual of transfiguration : The old man and the sea / Arvin R. Wells --
Religious aspects in the novels of Graham Greene / A.A. DeVitis --
Ignazio Silone and the pseudonyms of God / Robert McAfee Brown --
Lord of the flies : the power of Beelzebub / Paul Elmen --
Being and waiting : the question of Godot / Frederick J. Hoffman --
Flannery O'Connor / Robert Drake --
Morte D'Urban : two celebrations / Thomas Merton.