ABSTRACT
In the thirteenth century James I of Aragon opened an assembly of religious leaders with a provocative line of “Scripture”. The “unbrokenness” of the Metamorphoses also suggests a theory of poetry, with verse representing the eternal dialectical inversion of order and chaos, a mimetic after-effect of a more encompassing process of creation. The language–story–theology interplay within religion and literature studies attempts to bridge the great divide between the finite and the infinite. Winquist's postmodern theology depends upon a thinking in extremis that is linguistic, not epistemological, nor metaphysical. While theology in the postmodern moment is characterized by an abandonment of metaphysical discourse, questions concerning meaning and value in lived experience endure.
