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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 50
Page
... course be necessary to consider many epistemological and theoretical questions along the way, I have focused much of my attention on works of literature that, in my view, provide richer, more nuanced, and more expansive accounts of what ...
... course be necessary to consider many epistemological and theoretical questions along the way, I have focused much of my attention on works of literature that, in my view, provide richer, more nuanced, and more expansive accounts of what ...
Page
... course of fortune, By noting of this lady. I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes, And in her eye there hath appeared afire To burn the ...
... course of fortune, By noting of this lady. I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes, And in her eye there hath appeared afire To burn the ...
Page
... To doubt that Flero is pure is not possible for Beatrice; therefore, making a case for it is not possible.4 Of course, the kind of claim Beatrice impliciuy makes for Hero — though again it's not really a "claim"—carries weight only.
... To doubt that Flero is pure is not possible for Beatrice; therefore, making a case for it is not possible.4 Of course, the kind of claim Beatrice impliciuy makes for Hero — though again it's not really a "claim"—carries weight only.
Page
... course, this play sees them resume and nurture to fulfillment. Benedick's knowledge of Beatrice, therefore, is far from being merely visual: It is not the savoir of "ocular proof" but the connaître of love. It is Beatrice who reminds ...
... course, this play sees them resume and nurture to fulfillment. Benedick's knowledge of Beatrice, therefore, is far from being merely visual: It is not the savoir of "ocular proof" but the connaître of love. It is Beatrice who reminds ...
Page
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achieve Adam Adam Bede agape Alasdair MacIntyre Alcibiades answerable argument Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's attention Auden Augustine Augustine's Augustinian Baker Bakhtin become Buffalo Bill calls cantus firmus Chapter character charitable reading charity Christ Christian circus claim Claudio and Don context course criticism cultural Dialogic Dickens Dickens's Dickinson Dinah Dinah Morris discernment discourse distinction doctrine Don Pedro essay ethical friends friendship Gadamer genuine George Eliot gift Gradgrind hermeneutics hermeneutics of love Hero human I-for-myself interpretation Iris Murdoch Jesus justice kenosis Kierkegaard Kinbote kind knowledge literary live magnanimous Martha Nussbaum means Milbank moral narrator neighbor Nietzsche Nietzsche's notion Nussbaum one's oneself pagan Pale Fire passage perhaps person philia philosophical pleasure poem political precisely question Quixotic quoted reader receive Rich Scripture sense Shade's simply Sleary Sleary's spirit theology things thought Tompkins tradition truth understanding Updike Vereker virtue W. H. Auden words writes Zarathustra