I. the Loss of Faith.- I. Modern Literature and the Death of God.- II. God and the Alienated Self.- III. Eros and the Death of God.- II. the Search for God.- IV. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.- V. Dostoevski and the Problem of Religion.- VI. The Literature of Suicide.- VII. The Numinous in Fiction.- VIII. Religion and the Novel.- IX. Catholicism in Fiction.- X. The Dialectics of Tragedy in an Age of Unfaith.- III. the Summing up.- XI. Conclusion.
