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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... call practical rationality rather than speculative philosophy. Though it will of course be necessary to consider many epistemological and theoretical questions along the way, I have focused much of my attention on works of literature ...
... call practical rationality rather than speculative philosophy. Though it will of course be necessary to consider many epistemological and theoretical questions along the way, I have focused much of my attention on works of literature ...
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... Call me a fool; Trust not my reading nor my observations, Which with experimental seal doth warrant The tenor of my book; trust not my age, My reverence, calling, nor divinity, If this siveet lady lie not guiltless here Under some ...
... Call me a fool; Trust not my reading nor my observations, Which with experimental seal doth warrant The tenor of my book; trust not my age, My reverence, calling, nor divinity, If this siveet lady lie not guiltless here Under some ...
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... calls attention to here is precisely the importance of interpreting the sensory phenomena correctly and, moreover, the need for the interpreter to possess certain virtues in order to "read" Hero's blushes as they should be read— which ...
... calls attention to here is precisely the importance of interpreting the sensory phenomena correctly and, moreover, the need for the interpreter to possess certain virtues in order to "read" Hero's blushes as they should be read— which ...
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... calls love results not from some positive development of attention and appreciation but rather from the mere absence ... calling by God to the cure of souls, a calling that to be properly fulfilled requires constant attentiveness to the ...
... calls love results not from some positive development of attention and appreciation but rather from the mere absence ... calling by God to the cure of souls, a calling that to be properly fulfilled requires constant attentiveness to the ...
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... calling, nor erudition. Her certainty stems rather from her intimate personal knowledge of Hero. At this point the English language, as it does so rarely, fails us: Whereas it enables, as French does not, Claudio's distinction between ...
... calling, nor erudition. Her certainty stems rather from her intimate personal knowledge of Hero. At this point the English language, as it does so rarely, fails us: Whereas it enables, as French does not, Claudio's distinction between ...
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