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A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love

Alan Jacobs

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Nov 28th, 2001
  • Pages: 196
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.16in - 6.00in - 0.52in - 0.68lb
  • EAN: 9780813365664
  • Categories: Christian Theology - GeneralChristian Living - GeneralBooks & Reading

About the Author

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.