David Jasper
Biographic Data
| ID | 451622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Jasper |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Jasper |
| SIGNATURE | JASPER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9846-0704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 53 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Enthusiast
Michael Giffin, Interpreting Literary Texts
Varieties of chaplaincy in the churches
If the parish ministry is often regarded as at the heart of the life of the church, whether Anglican or otherwise, the more specialised ministry of chaplaincies within the church can sometimes touc
Reflections of a Gifford Committee convenor
David Jasper outlines a brief history of the Gifford lectures series before giving us an insight into the work of the University of Glasgow Gifford committee during the time he served as its convenor
Jeremy S. Begbie, Abundantly More
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Francesca Cioni, Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert
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James Gray (?1770-1830)
James Gray was for most of his professional life a school master in Dumfries and Edinburgh. He was also a poet in touch with the major talents of his day. Of humble Scottish origins, in later life he was ordained as an Anglican priest and was for three years a chaplain in the East India Company, serving in the remote post of Bhuj in Cutch. His short ministry was remarkable as he translated the Gospels into Hindustani and the local language of Kac…
Marilynne Robinson, Reading Genesis
Ann Loades (1938-2022)
As part of this special issue honouring the life and legacy of Ann Loades, David Jasper offers the sermon that he preached at Ann Loades’s funeral on 9 January 2023 at Dundee Cathedral
Reginald McGinnis and John Vignaux Smyth, Mock Ritual in the Modern Era
From Puritanism to the Age of Reason: A Study of Changes in Religious Thought within the Church of England
The Abancourt hours
"The Abancourt hours." International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Re-imagining religion
To tie in with this issue’s theme of theology and imagination, this review essay reflects on four relatively recent works by Scottish authors in order to explore the ubiquitous and often deeply unsettling experience of Scottish religion in literature and the arts. Reviewed works: Meg Bateman, Robert Crawford and James McGonigal, eds., Scottish Religious Poetry: From the Sixth Century to the Present (Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 2000) Edwin Morg…
Learning from the pandemic
This reflection on the church during the recent lockdown and pandemic begins and ends in the incarnaton and the actual presence among us of Jesus Christ. We are called to engage with the theological task of interpreting God’s work in both the pandemic and in the healing ministry of the church. That is also a caring ministry which entails risk and an awareness of the basic human need for contact at the physical level. Such actual presence is also …
Theology and the university
David Dickinson, Make-Believe
Edward Clarke, A Book of Psalms
The priest in the novels of Graham Greene
The priestly figure in Graham Greene's fiction may or may not wear a clerical collar. But through such characters salvation may be glimpsed not only through faith but through doubt and human weakness. Saints and sinners are not far apart. Pascal's 'wager' is also ever present in these novels that reflect the ambiguities of Greene's conversion to Roman Catholicism
Christopher Hancock, Christianity and Confucianism
Church and state in the nineteenth century and the revival of Thomas Becket
The legend of Thomas Becket was recovered in the nineteenth century in the context of debates after the Oxford Movement concerning the relation between Church and State. In the literature of the period Becket was, accordingly, either the saint or the villain. He featured largely in Robert Southey’s Book of the Church (1824) and in numerous novels and plays, including works by the High Churchman J.H. Neale, and the Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennys…
Reasons to Hope
Werner G. Jeanrond, professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Oslo, is recognised as one of the leading international Roman Catholic theologians of our day. A thoroughly international s
Poetry, philosophy and theology in conversation
"Poetry, philosophy and theology in conversation: thresholds of wonder." International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 20(2), pp. 154–155
The Lay Folks' Mass Book’ and Thomas Frederick Simmons
Thomas Frederick Simmons (1815–84) combined his ecclesiastical duties and liturgical interests with editing the fourteenth-century Middle English Lay folks’ mass book (1879) for the Early English Text Society, with the aim of showing the continuity of the English Church from the medieval period through the Reformation. In the light of modern scholarship, this article recontextualises both medieval text and Simmons's own editorial practice, and sh…
Seeking Christian Theology in Modern Chinese Fiction
The development of Christian theology in contemporary China can learn much from Chinese fiction beginning with Lu Xun and his dedication to writing for the spirit of the Chinese people. Increasingly, Chinese novelists have reflected the growth of spiritual life in the Chinese People's Republic in spite of the burden placed on the Christian church and religious believers
Möbian Nights
Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(2), pp. 350–351
Robert A. Gillies, Approaching the Cross
Readings in the Canon of Scripture
Beginning with the insights of the 'canonical criticism' of Brevard Childs and James Sanders, this book explores the canon of the Bible through readings in literature, art and cinema. It places the Bi
On reading the scriptures as literature
The Interpretation of Belief
The slumber of Apollo
The novelist as philosopher
The novelist as philosopher: Modern fiction and the history of ideas." History of European Ideas, 7(1), pp. 108–109
The Poetics of Belief . Nathan A. Scott, Jr
Matthew Arnold and Christianity
Text and Interpretation as Categories of Theological Thinking . Werner G. Jeanrond , Thomas J. Wilson
The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe
Language and the Worship of the Church
The Interpretation of Belief
Veer Durgadas Rathore (an epic)
(1990). Veer Durgadas Rathore (an epic) History of European Ideas: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 133-133
Reviving liberty
The Study of Literature and Religion
The introduction to a series of interdisciplinary titles, both monographs and essays, concerned with matters of literature, art and textuality within religious traditions founded upon texts and textua
Literature and Religion
The Trespass of the Sign
Translating Religious Texts
Faithful Persuasion
Violence and post-modernism
Readings in the Canon of Scripture
Beginning with the insights of the 'canonical criticism' of Brevard Childs and James Sanders, this book explores the canon of the Bible through readings in literature, art and cinema. It places the Bi
Echoes of God's Laughter
Modes of Faith
Theodore Ziolkowski's new book Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief has certain characteristics in common with other contemporary writers on ‘secularization,’ above all the recent work of Charles Taylor in A Secular Age (2007), as they trace the dissolution of forms of belief and the emergence of alternatives that mark not so much the absence of religion but the exploration of new options and avenues that might sustain the…
The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology
The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology is a defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology. The volume first offers a chronological account of key moments in the formation of the tradition; goes on to demonstrate literary ways of reading the Bible, theological ways of reading literature, and literary…
Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology
The arts and modern Christian architecture
Modern Christian architecture has stood largely in isolation from movements in contemporary art, driven primarily by the demands of the liturgy, especially after the Second Vatican Council. But Rudolf Schwarz regarded ecclesiastical architecture as a dynamic space for the human experience of the divine presence. In the work of Le Corbusier, the church building is theology enacted in stone. Rather than dictated by the form of the liturgy, church a…
Returning to Thinking Theologically – Breaking Down the Borders Between East and West
This essay explores the developments in Christian theology which are taking place in the encounter with the ancient Chinese classic texts. These are being revisited in Chinese universities where scholars from the West and the East are seeking a common religious language through what has been termed a form of “scriptural reasoning”. Links are especially made through the work of radical European thinkers of the present time such as Slavoj Žižek and…
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