David Jasper
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David Jasper is an Anglican priest and theologian, currently Professor in Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is an influential writer and speaker within the fields of Christian hermeneutics and post-modernity.
His particular interests are the interplay between English literature and the Bible. His work is in articulating theology within a postmodern post-Christian environment, and has been described as 'as a search for a postmodern theology'. He has been particularly involved in interdisciplinary thinking between theology and the arts.
He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, and chair of the University's 'Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts'. His wife Alison is also an academic theologian.
Jasper holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Durham and has served as visiting fellow at Emory University, elected visitor at the Smithsonian Institution and honorary fellow at Durham University.
He founded and served as director of the Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology at Durham University in 1980, and was principal of St Chad's College from 1989-91. He moved the Centre to The University of Glasgow in 1991. The Centre supports master's and doctoral programs in theology, literature and the arts and attracts students from all over the world.
[edit] 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)
