A Theology Of Reading: The Hermeneutics Of LoveIf 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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... Christ who himself does not speak in his own name, but in the name of his Father. Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of its workman that he ...
... Christ who himself does not speak in his own name, but in the name of his Father. Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of its workman that he ...
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... Christ, who is the author and guarantor of love. These are some of the purposes of this book. The key questions of charitable interpretation—what it is, how to achieve it—will be treated here according to the canons of what ...
... Christ, who is the author and guarantor of love. These are some of the purposes of this book. The key questions of charitable interpretation—what it is, how to achieve it—will be treated here according to the canons of what ...
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... Christ's commandment to proclaim the Gospel rather than by the natural impulse to argue and justify. But that means that the great challenge for me in writing this book has been to discover whether I can be "practical" (or Aristotelian ...
... Christ's commandment to proclaim the Gospel rather than by the natural impulse to argue and justify. But that means that the great challenge for me in writing this book has been to discover whether I can be "practical" (or Aristotelian ...
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