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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... interpretation—what it is, how to achieve it—will be treated here according to the canons of what Aristotelians call practical rationality rather than speculative philosophy. Though it will of course be necessary to consider many ...
... interpretation—what it is, how to achieve it—will be treated here according to the canons of what Aristotelians call practical rationality rather than speculative philosophy. Though it will of course be necessary to consider many ...
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... interpretations of particular texts by appealing to an account of interpretation in general"—is impossible insofar as it claims to be above, or separate from, or not implicated in, the practices it seeks to "govern." Theory is one of ...
... interpretations of particular texts by appealing to an account of interpretation in general"—is impossible insofar as it claims to be above, or separate from, or not implicated in, the practices it seeks to "govern." Theory is one of ...
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... interpreted them differently And what the Friar calls attention to here is precisely the importance of interpreting the ... interpretation, nor, indeed, could they; for Claudio and Don Pedro have no other knowledge relevant to the ...
... interpreted them differently And what the Friar calls attention to here is precisely the importance of interpreting the ... interpretation, nor, indeed, could they; for Claudio and Don Pedro have no other knowledge relevant to the ...
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