Alan Jacobs

A Theology Of Reading

The Hermeneutics Of Love

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through theological reflection interspersed with readings of literary texts, this book provides an elusive quarry?the charitable reader. It is a meaty meditation on absolutely central issues in serious reading, and its specific examples give a sufficient guide and impetus to a willing reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9780367314293
• ISBN-10: 0367314290
• Artikelnr.: 57733460

Autorenporträt

Alan Jacobs is professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. He is the author of What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry, A Visit to Vanity Fair and Other Moral Essays, and many essays of literary and cultural criticism. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and Theological Horizons.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude
1 Contexts and Obstacles
Interlude A: The Illuminati
2 Love and Knowledge
Interlude B: Transfer of Charisma
3 Love and the Suspicious Spirit
Interlude C: Quixotic Reading
4 Kenosis
Interlude D: Two Charitable Readers
5 Justice
Postlude