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 ... calls attention to here is precisely the importance of interpreting the sensory phenomena correctly and, moreover ...
... Call me a fool; Trust not my reading nor my observations, Which with experimental seal doth warrant The tenor of my ... calls attention to here is precisely the importance of interpreting the sensory phenomena correctly and, moreover ...
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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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... calls works of love, but heaven is such that no act can be pleasing there unless it is an act of love” (Works 20). And those Christians who regularly pray that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven should hope to see, in the ...
... calls works of love, but heaven is such that no act can be pleasing there unless it is an act of love” (Works 20). And those Christians who regularly pray that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven should hope to see, in the ...
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... calls “an unabashedly ideological appropriation of the spagan] text” (72) was possible. But such uses of non-Christian literature can scarcely be accommodated to what I am calling a hermeneutics of love. There are two chief reasons for ...
... calls “an unabashedly ideological appropriation of the spagan] text” (72) was possible. But such uses of non-Christian literature can scarcely be accommodated to what I am calling a hermeneutics of love. There are two chief reasons for ...
Contents
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THE ILLUMINATI | 37 |
TRANSFER OF CHARISMA | 69 |
QUIXOTIC READING | 91 |
TWO CHARITABLE READERS | 113 |
Postlude | 145 |
Notes | 153 |
Works Cited | 173 |
Index | 183 |
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