David Jasper

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David Jasper (born 1 August 1951) is a Professor Emeritus of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow.[1]

Jasper received multiple degrees from

St Stephen's House (BTh, 1975; MA, 1979).[2] He was ordained deacon in 1976 and priest in 1977.[3] He later completed his doctorate at Durham University (Hatfield College), where he also served as Chaplain until 1988.[4]

He was a founder of the Conference on Literature and Religion at Durham University in 1980.[

Desert theology. On 26 January 2007 Jasper received an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.[6]

In 2014 Jasper became priest in charge of St Cuthbert's Church in Cambuslang, combining this job with his academic work.[7]


Academic offices
Preceded by
Ronald C. Trounson
 Principal of St Chad's College, Durham
1989 to 1991 		Succeeded by

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)
  • The Sacred Community, (2012)
  • The Language of Liturgy, (2018)
  • Heaven in Ordinary: Religion and Poetry in a Secular Age, (2018)

References

  1. ^ "Professor David Jasper FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 19 May 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  2. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 2006-07, 99th Edition, p 429.
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 2006-07, 99th Edition, p 429.
  4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 2006-07, 99th Edition, p 429.
  5. ^ "History". St Chad's College Durham. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Honorary Doctors of the Faculty of Theology - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  7. ^ Smith, Kenny (14 December 2014). "New priest in charge for St Cuthbert's Church". Daily Record. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

External links

  • University of Glasgow [1]
  • Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts [2]
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