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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... experience (“experiment”), and that such judgments therefore deserve more credence than those of Claudio and Don Pedro. But the Friar is not the only person present, other than Hero, who is confident of Hero's innocence: There is ...
... experience (“experiment”), and that such judgments therefore deserve more credence than those of Claudio and Don Pedro. But the Friar is not the only person present, other than Hero, who is confident of Hero's innocence: There is ...
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... 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 form of an argument but ...
... 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 form of an argument but ...
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... experience of reading; for instance, our education (in the broadest sense: Bildung, one might say) is always at work whenever we read. To persons who claim that their understanding of Scripture comes from God alone and not from mere ...
... experience of reading; for instance, our education (in the broadest sense: Bildung, one might say) is always at work whenever we read. To persons who claim that their understanding of Scripture comes from God alone and not from mere ...
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Contents
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9 | |
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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