Foreword / Erika Mae Olbricht
Introduction / Roy R. Jeal
Part I. Foundations: the beautiful sublime. The rhetoric of the sublime in the narrative of Mary the Mother of Jesus (Luke 1-2 / Roy R. Jeal
The sublime and subliminal in Romans 2-3 / Jonathan Thiessen
Divine speech, Hebrews, and sublime rhetoric / Christopher T. Holmes
Rhetorical criticism of the sublime / Thomas H. Olbricht
Coleridge's sublime and rhetorical interpretation of New Testament texts / Murray J. Evans
Part 2. Development: the terrifying sublime. Terror and the logic of the sublime in Revelation / Christopher T. Holmes
Sublime terror in 1 Enoch / Vernon K. Robbins
The sublime terror of Ignatius of Antioch / Harry O. Maier
Subliming the sublime : the Bible and the sublime in eighteenth-century Britain / Alan P.R. Gregory
Sublime terror in context: a response / Roy R. Jeal.