This research aims to analyze how the concept of influence in Harold Bloom can contribute to the understanding of literature as a possibility of interpretative mediation, therefore, hermeneutic of theology. From the evaluation of the philosophical-theological movement that made possible a new epistemological and scientific paradigm of theological studies, namely, the anthropological twist, it was possible to verify, briefly, the consolidation of an eminently hermeneutic language in the practices of theology elaboration, such as, the opening to renewed forms of mediation and interdisciplinary interaction, such as the one to which the current research subscribes, the so-called theopoetics. Fixed the data of the current theological studies scenario, it became propitious to the presentation of the theoretical framework of the influence concept of the literary critic Harold Bloom, privileging the itinerary followed by the author in his poetic theory book The anxiety of the influence, which presents in its wake the six movements of poetic appropriation called the life cycle of strong poets. Characterized by the literary agon between the poet and his precursor, for Bloom, the anguish of influence is the search for the opening of an imaginative space for the poet within the literary tradition, having as a totem of transference and imaginative creation symbols, metaphors and narrative models defined by tradition, among which the Bible is one of its strongest representatives. After a very brief glimpse of the imaginative richness contained in the Scriptures, we started to take, for example, the strategies of literary appropriation of biblical images in the poetry of Carlos Nejar, exposing the anguish of influence as a way of reviving literature and the ethos of which the Theology can start, in a new way, its task of communicating the Christian faith.