A Theology Of Reading: The Hermeneutics Of Love / Edition 1

by Alan Jacobs

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780813365664
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	11/28/2001
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

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.

Table of Contents

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