Ray L. Hart

The New Voice

Arts & Literature

“Here is a book that, in Spinoza's words, is as excellent as it is rare. The beginning student may be set to work on it in full confidence that everything important in the recent history of it's subject matter has been deftly tracked, while the scholar will find that the author has blazed promising paths into the future. Indeed the most significant mark of Professor Wilder's work is that he does not merely relate the disciplines noted in the sub-title in their contemporary form; rather he makes substantive contribution to each, and so sets their alliances on a new plane. Thus in theology he tills the sub-soil of tradition, or what he calls the "wholeness of the canon"; in literature he probes modern anomie in conjunction with the quest for universal patterns of narrative and fabulation; and in hermeneutics he proliferates the essential linguisticality of human existence into a comparative rhetoric. As regards these concerns and their inner relation, it is a thing of joy and beauty that an elder tongue should continue to find a new voice.”

Theological Method and Imagination

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)