Theophobia continues Beasley's postmodern spiritual meditations in the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, and T.S. Eliot.

ONEPilgrim's Deviations 1 1Having Read the Holy Spirit's Wikipedia 2Year's End Paradoxography 6TWOPilgrim's Deviations 2 11All Saints 12The Kingdom of God Is Not Usher'd in with Pomp and Exclamations 13Sunrise Insomnia Service 15Stray Apostrophes 17Reading the Not-Written 20THREEPilgrim's Deviations 3 22Valedictions 23Theme and Invariants 27The Scale by which the Mapped Concerns the Map 29FOURPilgrim's Deviations 4 31Genomic Vanitas: Vanitas 32 Vocation 33 Void Domicils 34 Mother Tongue 35 Like Begets Unlike 36 Nothing to Obstruct 37 Memento Vivi 38 Canticle of the Creatures 39 Reading about Retrotransposons in Amish Country, in the Fall 41FIVEPilgrim's Deviations 5 43May I Tell You, Mr. President, About the Sacred Chickens 44Dysinaugural 47SIXPilgrim's Deviations 6 52Self-Portrait in Ink 53"Behold, I Am Against the Prophets," Saith The Lord, "Who with Sweet Tongues Say, 'the Lord Saith'" 54The Parable of the Mustard Seed 56Dedication 58Like Unto a Merchant Man Seeking Goodly Pearls 59As in a Dim Scriptorium 62Extremophilic Magnificat 64SEVENPilgrim's Deviations 7 69Six Notes toward the End 70To Revoke All Wills and Codicils Heretofore Made by Me 72NOTES As if the exegesis could ever cease 85