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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... given me have been invaluable. Their confidence in the project, when it was still incipient, gave me the determination to pursue it when I could find plenty of reasons to set it aside or abandon it altogether. And Charles's efforts as ...
... given me have been invaluable. Their confidence in the project, when it was still incipient, gave me the determination to pursue it when I could find plenty of reasons to set it aside or abandon it altogether. And Charles's efforts as ...
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... given that Williams takes “philosophy” to mean detached reflection, or theoria: How truthfulness to an existing self or society is to be combined with reflection, self-understanding, and criticism is a question that philosophy, itself ...
... given that Williams takes “philosophy” to mean detached reflection, or theoria: How truthfulness to an existing self or society is to be combined with reflection, self-understanding, and criticism is a question that philosophy, itself ...
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... given way unto this course offortune, 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 appear ...
... given way unto this course offortune, 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 appear ...
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... given the recurrent hostility toward pagan thought among many Christians. Thomas himself worked in a time when the works of Aristotle were almost always at risk of being placed under some local, or perhaps universal, interdict. Often ...
... given the recurrent hostility toward pagan thought among many Christians. Thomas himself worked in a time when the works of Aristotle were almost always at risk of being placed under some local, or perhaps universal, interdict. Often ...
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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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