ABSTRACT
Reflecting on the method and practice that has been at work in the book, I summarise my position on the debate about religion in Shakespeare studies and argue that my doxological approach allows me to show a new centrality for literature and poetics within theology: if the affirmation and articulation of the goodness of being ultimately require a theological grounding for language, it follows that theological thinking can no longer ignore the literary; that is, it can no longer do without the salutary mediation of human language, poesis and imagination.
