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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... neighbor as yourself” (Mt. 22:37–40, RSV). But he then goes on to make the greater, and more startling, claim that upon these commandments “depend all the law and the prophets.” That the one identified by the Christian Church as ...
... neighbor as yourself” (Mt. 22:37–40, RSV). But he then goes on to make the greater, and more startling, claim that upon these commandments “depend all the law and the prophets.” That the one identified by the Christian Church as ...
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... neighbor, that love manifested in her work and her leisure, in her caregiving and her worship. We need not shy away from evaluating any everyday pursuit according to what the fourteenth-century English theologian Richard Rolle (along ...
... neighbor, that love manifested in her work and her leisure, in her caregiving and her worship. We need not shy away from evaluating any everyday pursuit according to what the fourteenth-century English theologian Richard Rolle (along ...
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... neighbor as the first requirement in the reading of any text can we fulfill “the law of love” in our thinking, our talking, and our manner of working." Of course, it is not as though the Church has failed to reflect on the place of non ...
... neighbor as the first requirement in the reading of any text can we fulfill “the law of love” in our thinking, our talking, and our manner of working." Of course, it is not as though the Church has failed to reflect on the place of non ...
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... neighbors. The captured pagan woman presumably is not asked whether she wants to marry. Given the uncertain cultural position of Christianity in its early centuries, this combative attitude may be comprehensible. But the hermeneutics of ...
... neighbors. The captured pagan woman presumably is not asked whether she wants to marry. Given the uncertain cultural position of Christianity in its early centuries, this combative attitude may be comprehensible. But the hermeneutics of ...
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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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