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.
Author: Alan Jacobs
Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 2001-11-28
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 081336566X
ISBN 13: 9780813365664
Dimension: Length: 6 inches, Width: 0.42 inches, Height: 9 inches
Weight: Weight: 0.8157103694 pounds
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
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.
Author: Alan Jacobs
Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 2001-11-28
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 081336566X
ISBN 13: 9780813365664
Dimension: Length: 6 inches, Width: 0.42 inches, Height: 9 inches
Weight: Weight: 0.8157103694 pounds
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196