Contents; ONE: Jesus as Christ and More: The First Eighteen Centuries; TWO: Jesus as Romantic Hero; THREE: Sliding into Modernism: Jesus Pale and Shrunken; FOUR: Crisis of the Secularized West: Postmodernism's Jesus as Antihero; FIVE: Crucified Africa: The Politicized Jesus of Africa and Beyond; SIX: Archetypal Christ: Arabic Poetry and Other Wastelands; SEVEN: Jesus Absent; EIGHT: Between Absence and Presence: Playing Around with Jesus; NINE: Jesus Present; Notes; Permissions Acknowledgments; Notes on the Artists; Index
Summary
Poets have always been the medium through which a culture talks of, and to, its gods. Despite the 20th century's self-definition as a secular and post-Christian epoch, this text shows it has produced poetry about Jesus of surprising quality and variety
