Wrestling with God: Literature and Theology in the English Renaissance. Essays to Honour Paul Grant Stanwood. Edited by Mary Ellen Henley and W. Speed Hill with the assistance of R. G. Siemens. [Vancouver]: M. E. Henley, 2001. vi + 336 pp. CDN $50.00 (cloth).
Wrestling with God, is a collection of essays honoring Paul Grant Stanwood at the time of his retirement from a distinguished career of teaching, editing, and writing about English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This period, commonly referred to as "the English Renaissance," is described as a theological age that produced a literature which regarded human events against a background of divine …