Literature and Theology as a Grammar of Assent

The Revd.Professor David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow, UK and Distinguished Overseas Professor, Renmin University of China, Beijing. He was Principal of St. Chad's College, Durham University, and holds degrees from Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, and Uppsala universities. He was the founding Editor of the Oxford journal Literature and Theology, and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. His recent books in the field of literature and theology include the trilogy The Sacred Desert (2004), The Sacred Body (2009) and The Sacred Community (2012). He has been an ordained Anglican priest for nearly forty years.