Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature

Binding the Ghost is both manifesto and example of a new variety of reading that centers a theological perspective in considering what literature actually does. Neither dogmatic nor apologetic, sectarian or denominational, this mode of reading acknowledges the inherently charged strangeness of writing and fiction, whereby authors have the ability to seemingly create entire universes from words alone.

Ed Simonconsiders the theological depth, resonance, and mystery of the acts of reading and w...