Peter S. Hawkins

Author of Listening for God Volume 1

About the Author

Peter S. Hawkins is Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School. His work has centered on Dante, but he has also written widely on the history of biblical reception and on contemporary fiction. He is the author of numerous books, including Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural show more Imagination, Dante: A Brief History, and undiscovered Country: Imagining the World to Come. show less

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Listening for God: Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith

Works by Peter S. Hawkins

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Listening for God Volume 1 (1994) — Editor — 285 copies, 1 review

Listening for God Volume 2 (1996) — Editor — 138 copies, 1 review

The Poets' Dante: Twentieth-Century Responses (2001) — Editor — 122 copies, 1 review

Listening for God Volume 4 (2003) — Editor — 84 copies

Listening for God Volume 3 (2000) — Editor — 70 copies

The Language of Grace: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, & Iris Murdoch (1983) 62 copies

Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination (1999) 38 copies

Dante: A Brief History (2006) 35 copies

Undiscovered Country: Imagining the World to Come (2009) 23 copies, 1 review

Getting nowhere : Christian hope & utopian dream (1985) 10 copies

Ineffability: Naming the Unnamable from Dante to Beckett (1984) 7 copies

From the Margins 1: Women of the Hebrew Bible and their Afterlives (Bible in the Modern World) (2009) — Editor — 4 copies

Civitas : religious interpretations of the city (1986) 2 copies

Scrolls of love : Ruth and the Song of songs 1 copy

Listening for God : contemporary literature and the life of faith 1 copy

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Dante's Paradiso (2005) — Preface — 136 copies, 2 reviews

Our Selves, Our Souls and Bodies: Sexuality and the Household of God (1996) — Contributor — 96 copies

Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry (ND Devers Series Dante & Med. Ital. Lit.) (2010) — Contributor — 12 copies

Ancient forgiveness (2011) — Contributor — 7 copies

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Birthdate: 1945
Gender: male
Education: University of Wisconsin at Madison (BA)
Union Theological Seminary (MDiv)
Yale University (PhD)
Occupations: Professor of Religion & Literature, Yale Divinity School
Professor of Religion, Boston University

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PAFM 1,021 reviews

Listening for God: Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith, Vol 1 by Paula J. Carlson

This is a collection of short stories to help readers investigate how life and faith merge in surprising ways and places.
Contents: Revelation / Flannery O'Coonor -- The dwarves in the stable / Frederick Buechner -- Chapter 6 from Virgin time / Patricia Hampl -- A small good thing / Raymond Carver -- A deer at Providencia ; A field of silence / Annie Dillard -- The welcome table / Alice Walker -- Exiles ; Aprille / Garrison Keillor -- Credo / Richard Rodriguez.

Jul 2, 2024

HarryMacDonald 430 reviews

The Poets' Dante by Peter S. Hawkins

It is generally true that one cannot learn less. I came close in this rather slap-dash collection of essays and essay-fragments. If anybody can indeed proft form it, mazel tov. The overall message of these Editors seems to be that Dante can be all things to all persons -- which is patently false.

Dec 13, 2012 (Edited)

PendleHillLibrary 3,298 reviews

Listening for God: Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith, Volume 2 by Paula J. Carlson

Excerpts from books of famous authors as well as reflections on where to find faith and meaning

Jul 22, 2024

EdwardGleason 11 reviews

Undiscovered country : imagining the world to come by Peter S. Hawkins

Author and Yale University professor, Peter S. Hawkins will speak at Wednesday Night Out on February 1, 2012. It will be helpful if those attending have read Undiscovered Country. Review by Barbara Brown Taylor. Copies will be available at Trinity or to order a copy, control/click here.

"Hawkins trusts a God who is rooted in human love even when that love is predictably frail or goes pitifully awry. He is a student of what it means to be "up to love," no matter how painful the lesson, which show more makes him the best kind of teacher. In the end, I think, that is what drives this book: his wish to teach us that our imagination of the afterlife has power to change our lives now." --Barbara Brown Taylor, author of Leaving Church show less

Oct 26, 2011