David Jasper
Encyclopedia
David Jasper is a theologian
, currently Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow
, Scotland
.
Theology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
, currently Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
.
Publications
- Coleridge as Poet and Religious Thinker, (1985)
- The New Testament and the Literary Imagination, (1987)
- The Study of Literature and Religion: An Introduction, Second Edition, (1992)
- Rhetoric, Power and Community: An Exercise in Reserve, (1993)
- Readings in the Canon of Scripture, (1995)
- The Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism, (1999)
- The Bible and Literature: A Reader (with Stephen Prickett), (1999)
- Religion and Literature: A Reader (with Robert Detweiler), (2000)
- The Sacred Desert, (2004)
- A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics, (2004)
- The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology (co-editor with Andrew W. Hass and Elisabeth Jay), (2007)
- The Sacred Body, (2009)
External links
- University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/theology/staff/davidjasper/
- Centre for the Study of Literature Theology and the Arts http://www.religions.divinity.gla.ac.uk/Centre_Literature/index.htm