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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... practices it seeks to “govern.” Theory is one of the forms of practice and doesn't rise above anything, as Stanley Fish argues in almost every essay in Doing What Comes Naturally. My reservations about theory, then, are almost identical ...
... practices it seeks to “govern.” Theory is one of the forms of practice and doesn't rise above anything, as Stanley Fish argues in almost every essay in Doing What Comes Naturally. My reservations about theory, then, are almost identical ...
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... practice of, the virtues which I have tried to identify. She thus turns away from the competing catalogues of the virtues of the eighteenth century and restores a teleological perspective. (After 240) For all the Aristotelian acuteness ...
... practice of, the virtues which I have tried to identify. She thus turns away from the competing catalogues of the virtues of the eighteenth century and restores a teleological perspective. (After 240) For all the Aristotelian acuteness ...
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... practiced villain, Don John, accompanied Claudio and Don Pedro as they stalked away and, moreover, that those who are deceived are not always free from culpability for their state of misinformation (as he demonstrates in his stern ...
... practiced villain, Don John, accompanied Claudio and Don Pedro as they stalked away and, moreover, that those who are deceived are not always free from culpability for their state of misinformation (as he demonstrates in his stern ...
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... practice, the chief means by which this gold was laid hold of was allegory. As Jeffrey shows, Jerome uses an allegorical interpretation of a passage from Scripture—the disturbing provision in Deuteronomy (21:10–13) that a woman taken ...
... practice, the chief means by which this gold was laid hold of was allegory. As Jeffrey shows, Jerome uses an allegorical interpretation of a passage from Scripture—the disturbing provision in Deuteronomy (21:10–13) that a woman taken ...
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... practices of the Christian life, be understood and treated as neighbors: “Neighbour is what philosophers would call the other” (Kierkegaard, Works 37). The second reason involves hermeneutical method: The allegorical approaches of ...
... practices of the Christian life, be understood and treated as neighbors: “Neighbour is what philosophers would call the other” (Kierkegaard, Works 37). The second reason involves hermeneutical method: The allegorical approaches of ...
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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