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A Theology Of Reading: The Hermeneutics Of Love (Radical Traditions)
Alan Jacobs
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Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; HP; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Westview Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780813365664
SKU
V9780813365664
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Ref
99-1
About Alan Jacobs
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, ... Read more
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