A Theology Of Reading
The Hermeneutics Of Love
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- $57.99
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- $57.99
Publisher 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.
Customer Reviews
Kind Read
Promotes kind, charitable, and
generous reading and listening. Be slow to critique, quick to empathize, and go a long mile carrying another’s pack of rhetoric, reasons, narratives. Excellent. Stuff we were taught, learned, and put into daily practice in kindergarten, but won’t/can’t/won’t abide by as adults. We we would do well to redevelop this generosity of spirit and loving kindness. (It would help us with family/in-laws/friends during holidays, it could help us socially and professionally, and it could help prevent hate crime, racist provocations, and just a little bit of near endless war. Could prevent a little bitty bit of a great, great, long epoch of strife.