A Theology Of Reading
The Hermeneutics Of Love
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-0-8133-6566-4 (ISBN)
Description
If the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the "law of love"-the twofold love of God and one's neighbor-what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique book. Through theological reflection interspersed with readings of literary texts (Shakespeare and Cervantes, Nabokov and Nicholson Baker, George Eliot and W. H. Auden and Dickens), Jacobs pursues an elusive quarry: the charitable reader.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-6566-4 (9780813365664)
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Person
Alan Jacobs is professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. He is the author of What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry, A Visit to Vanity Fair and Other Moral Essays, and many essays of literary and cultural criticism. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and Theological Horizons. With his wife and son, he lives in Wheaton, Illinois.
Content
Prelude -- Contexts and Obstacles -- The Illuminati -- Love and Knowledge -- Transfer of Charisma -- Love and the Suspicious Spirit -- Quixotic Reading -- Kenosis -- Two Charitable Readers -- Justice -- Postlude