196 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Prelude -- Contexts and Obstacles -- The Illuminati -- Love and Knowledge -- Transfer of Charisma -- Love and the Suspicious Spirit -- Quixotic Reading -- Kenosis -- Two Charitable Readers -- Justice -- Postlude
Biography
Jacobs, Alan
