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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... Knowledge INTERLUDE B: TRANSFER OF CHARISMA 3 Love and the Suspicious Spirit INTERLUDE C: QUIXOTIC READING 4 Kenosis INTERLUDE D: TWO CHARITABLE READERS 5 Justice Postlude Notes Works Cited Index ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My heartiest and most ...
... Knowledge INTERLUDE B: TRANSFER OF CHARISMA 3 Love and the Suspicious Spirit INTERLUDE C: QUIXOTIC READING 4 Kenosis INTERLUDE D: TWO CHARITABLE READERS 5 Justice Postlude Notes Works Cited Index ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My heartiest and most ...
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... knowledge. The first to speak on Hero's behalf—after even her own father, Leonato, has accepted the charges against her ("Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie?" [1. 153])—is the Friar who was to officiate at the ceremony: Hear me ...
... knowledge. The first to speak on Hero's behalf—after even her own father, Leonato, has accepted the charges against her ("Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie?" [1. 153])—is the Friar who was to officiate at the ceremony: Hear me ...
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... knowledge relevant to the interpretive task with which they are faced.3 Claudio's own account, given to Don Pedro, of how he came to love Hero is instructive: O my lord, When you went onward on this ended action, I look'd upon her with ...
... knowledge relevant to the interpretive task with which they are faced.3 Claudio's own account, given to Don Pedro, of how he came to love Hero is instructive: O my lord, When you went onward on this ended action, I look'd upon her with ...
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... knowledge about Hero is almost totally visual, the product of his repeated "looking upon her"; and second, that the growth of "liking" into what Claudio calls love results not from some positive development of attention and appreciation ...
... knowledge about Hero is almost totally visual, the product of his repeated "looking upon her"; and second, that the growth of "liking" into what Claudio calls love results not from some positive development of attention and appreciation ...
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... knowledge of' rather than "knowledge about." One of the most important and productive elements of the work of Martha Nussbaum has been her insistence, deriving from Aristotle, that love—especially philia, the kind of love that Beatrice ...
... knowledge of' rather than "knowledge about." One of the most important and productive elements of the work of Martha Nussbaum has been her insistence, deriving from Aristotle, that love—especially philia, the kind of love that Beatrice ...
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