A Theology Of Reading: The Hermeneutics Of Love

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:	9780429982224
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/08/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	196
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Jacobs, Alan

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