A Theology of Reading

Alan Jacobs

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Author
Alan Jacobs
Publish Date
2001-11-28
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
196
Publisher Name
Routledge
ISBN-10
081336566X
ISBN-13
9780813365664
citemno
278662
Subtitle
The Hermeneutics of Love
Edition
Reprint
SKU
9780813365664

Description

If 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.