Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.

Being Deified; Being Deified; ; ; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Deification and Creativity: A Prelude; Poet and Poem: God, Creation, and Humanity; Before "In the Beginning," Or "In the Beginning God": The God Who is Poet and Theo-Poet; The Poem Days 1-5: The Stage for Deification; The Poem Day 6: Humanity, the Deified; Pride, Evil, and Distorted Vision; The Pride of the Poem: Auto-Deification, Distorted Sight, and Privative Evil; Distorted Eyesight and a Corrupted Cosmos; The Poet Enters the Poem; The Poet Enters the Poem: Incarnation, Deification, and a Restoration of Vision Participating in the Poem: Sacraments, Liturgy, and Human Creativity Participating in the Poem: Sacramental Ontology; Participating in the Poem and Theo-Poem: Human Creativity and Examples from Poetry and Fantasy; Deification and Creativity: A Postlude; Bibliography; Index