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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... claims to be above, or separate from, or not implicated in, the practices it seeks to "govern." Theory is one of the forms of practice and doesn't rise above anything, as Stanley Fish argues in almost every essay in Doing What Comes ...
... claims to be above, or separate from, or not implicated in, the practices it seeks to "govern." Theory is one of the forms of practice and doesn't rise above anything, as Stanley Fish argues in almost every essay in Doing What Comes ...
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... claims. After all, as Alasdair Maclntyre has rightly said, "Aristotle would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St. Paul" (After 184).1 But I am encouraged in my endeavor by thinking often of a ...
... claims. After all, as Alasdair Maclntyre has rightly said, "Aristotle would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St. Paul" (After 184).1 But I am encouraged in my endeavor by thinking often of a ...
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... claim to some intuited gnosis or supernatural revelation divorced from the realm of the senses. Like Claudio and Don Pedro, he derives his judgment from what he sees, and he sees what they do: Claudio, as noted, has spoken of Hero's ...
... claim to some intuited gnosis or supernatural revelation divorced from the realm of the senses. Like Claudio and Don Pedro, he derives his judgment from what he sees, and he sees what they do: Claudio, as noted, has spoken of Hero's ...
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... claims an authority that allows him to connect the visual phenomena—which, again, he perceives precisely as Claudio and Don Pedro do—more responsibly and in a way faithful to the true character of Hero. This authority has, he explains ...
... claims an authority that allows him to connect the visual phenomena—which, again, he perceives precisely as Claudio and Don Pedro do—more responsibly and in a way faithful to the true character of Hero. This authority has, he explains ...
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... claims an authoritative experience of Hero's character that gives the lie to the princes' accusation—and, one might add, to Leonato's shockingly immediate acquiescence in his daughter's condemnation. Beatrice's claim comes not in the ...
... claims an authoritative experience of Hero's character that gives the lie to the princes' accusation—and, one might add, to Leonato's shockingly immediate acquiescence in his daughter's condemnation. Beatrice's claim comes not in the ...
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