Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I -- POESIA MYSTICA; PART II -- JUSTITIA MYSTICA; PART III -- AMOR MYSTICUS; Afterword; REFERENCE MATTER; Notes; Index; Cultural Memory in the Present; 1 -- Sacramental Poetics; 2 -- Mystical and Political Bodies; 3 -- Shakespeare's Tragic Mass: Craving Justice; 4 -- Milton's Cosmic Body: Doing Justice; 5 -- Donne in Love: Communion of the Flesh; 6 -- Herbert's Praise: Communion in Conversation; The Eucharist; Idolatry: Images and Imagination; Sacrifice and Murder; Othello and Justice; Paradisal Communion
Unspeakable SalvationResurrecting Love; Mystical Poetry and Theology; The Theology of Conversation; "Love III."
Summary
This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-177) and index
