Peter S. Hawkins

Biography

Peter S. Hawkins has served as Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School. Hawkins wrote Getting Nowhere (2016) and edited Ineffability (2016) and Civitas (2016).

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A Theology of Literature

Theology

“William Franke views the Bible with a fresh eye. He has the scholar's learning, the theologian's quest for revelation, and the poet's understanding of where language can take us. He writes with extraordinary clarity about complex issues and texts; he gives a new sense of all that the literature of the Bible has in store.”

An Unexpected Light

Arts & Literature

“David Mahan sheds'unexpected light' on poetry as a Christian discourse. He does this by deftly elucidating common intellectual ground shared by poets and theologians. Where he shines, however, is in showing how a poem means, how ideas actually become incarnate in texts. Mahan offers beautifully lucid analysis of demanding poets who, in his sure hands, become accessible, though never merely easy. He challenges us to see their work as not only speaking to our particular historical condition but, in quirky and reticent ways, as evangelizing our imaginations.”