2025

Jasper, David (2025) Andrew Hass, Mattias Martinson and Laurens ten Kate, The Music of Theology: Language, Space, Silence. Theology, 128(2), pp. 147-148. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x251322338l)[Book Review]

Jasper, David (2025) George Pattison, Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature, and Life. Theology, 128(2), pp. 136-137. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x251322338c)[Book Review]

2024

Jasper, David (2024) James Gray (?1770–1830): East India Company chaplain. Theology, 127(3), pp. 179-187. (doi: 10.1177/0040571X241249300)

Jasper, David (2024) Francesca Cioni, Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert. Theology, 127(3), pp. 222-223. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x241249308i)[Book Review]

Jasper, David (2024) The scholar priest in the Church of England in the nineteenth century. Journal of Anglican Studies, 22(1), pp. 67-80. (doi: 10.1017/S1740355323000013)

Jasper, David (2024) Jeremy S. Begbie,Abundantly More: The Theological Promise of the Arts in aReductionist World (Grand Rapids MI: Baker Academic, 2023); xxþ251 pp.:9781540965431, $39.99 (hbk). Theology, 127(1), pp. 50-51. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x231222201)[Book Review]

2023

Jasper, David and Smith, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4788-3966 (2023) Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England: Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book. Series: Medievalism, 26. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781783277483

Jasper, David (2023) Nomadland: a film by Chloé Zhao. Expository Times, 134(12), pp. 539-542. (doi: 10.1177/00145246231156324)

2021

O'Donovan, Oliver, Hart, Trevor and Jasper, David (2021) Learning from the pandemic. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 21(2), pp. 138-147. (doi: 10.1080/1474225X.2021.2013525)

Jasper, David (2021) Theology and the university. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 21(3-4), pp. 195-197. (doi: 10.1080/1474225x.2021.2021660)

2020

Jasper, David (2020) Church and state in the nineteenth century and the revival of Thomas Becket. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 20(3-4), pp. 251-263. (doi: 10.1080/1474225X.2020.1863687)

2019

Jasper, David and Smith, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4788-3966 (2019) 'The Lay Folks' Mass Book' and Thomas Frederick Simmons: medievalism and the Tractarians. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 70(4), pp. 785-804. (doi: 10.1017/S002204691900054X)

Jasper, David and Wright, Jenny (Eds.) (2019) Truth and the Church in a Secular Age. SCM Press: London. ISBN 9780334058168

2017

Jasper, David (2017) Jim Crace: inventor of worlds. Theology, 120(3), pp. 181-189. (doi: 10.1177/0040571X16684428)

2016

Fotiade, Ramona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-4603 and Jasper, David (2016) Jean-Luc Marion: a reflection. In: Givenness and Revelation. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198757733

Jasper, David and Song, Robert (2016) Love and human relationships: readings from Jeremy Taylor. Theology, 119(2), pp. 99-107. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x15615330)

Jasper, David (2016) Literature and Theology as a Grammar of Assent. Ashgate Publishing Limited: Farnham. ISBN 9781472475244

2014

Fotiade, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-4603, Jasper, D. and Salazar-Ferrer, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6130-6095 (Eds.) (2014) Embodiment: Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying. Series: Intensities: Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion. Ashgate. ISBN 9781472410528

Jasper, David (2014) The Eucharistic body. In: Fotiade, Ramona, Jasper, David and Salazar-Ferrer, Olivier (eds.) Embodiment: Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying. Series: Intensities: Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 117-130. ISBN 9781472410528

2012

Jasper, D. (Ed.) (2012) The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant: Part II, Volume 8. Writings on Biography II. Pickering & Chatto: London. ISBN 9781851966080 (set)

Jasper, D. (2012) The Sacred Community: Art, Sacrament, and the People of God. Baylor University Press. ISBN 9781602585584

2011

Jasper, D. (2011) The desert landscape: a sunlit landscape amid the night of nonbeing. In: Guibert, P. (ed.) Reflective Landscapes of the Anglophone Countries. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 243-253. ISBN 9789042032613

Jasper, D. (2011) Preface. In: Iolana, P. and Tongue, S. (eds.) Testing the Boundaries: Self, Faith, Interpretation and Changing Trends in Religious Studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, xi-xii. ISBN 9781443826693

Jasper, D. (2011) The spiritual in contemporary art. Art and Christianity, 65, pp. 2-6.

2010

Jasper, D. (2010) Pre-Raphaelite biblical art in Wales. In: O'Kane, M. and Morgan-Guy, J. (eds.) Biblical Art from Wales. Phoenix Academic Pres: Sheffield, pp. 139-153. ISBN 9781906055677

Jasper, D. (2010) The eucharistic body in art and literature. In: Watson, N.K. and Burns, S. (eds.) Exchanges of Grace: Essays in Honour of Ann Loades. SCM Press: London, UK, pp. 213-223. ISBN 9780334041672

Jasper, D. (2010) Gadamer. In: Patte, D. (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 443-444. ISBN 9780521820967

Jasper, D. (2010) Hermeneutics. In: Patte, D. (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 508-509. ISBN 9780521820967

Jasper, D. (2010) The Pilgrim's Regress and Surprised by Joy. In: MacSwain, R. and Ward, M. (eds.) Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis. Series: Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 223-236. ISBN 9780521884136

Jasper, D. (2010) Konstnaren och religionen i samtiden. In: Ekstrand, T., Essunger, M., Martinson, M. and Westerlund, K. (eds.) Mening och Mönster: Bilder av Teologi och Livsåskådningsforskning: Festskrift till Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm. Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Uppsala studies in faiths and ideologies (25). University of Uppsala: Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 184-195. ISBN 9789155477318

Jasper, D. (2010) "Something understood": from poetry to theology in the writings of George Herbert. In: Hodgkins, C. (ed.) George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest of Bemerton. University of Delaware Press: Newark, USA, pp. 271-287. ISBN 9780874130225

Jasper, D. (2010) Termes recurrents dans l'Univers Kantien: 'sujet' et 'objet' chez S.T. Coleridge. In: Gallet, R. and Guibert, P. (eds.) Le Sujet Romantique et le Monde: La Voie Anglaise. Series: Symposia. Presses Universitaires de Caen: Caen, France, pp. 209-222. ISBN 9782841333363

Jasper, D. (2010) Thinking the Nicene Creed: Death and Resurrection - New Life in Christ. Series: Grosvenor essay (6). Doctrine Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780905573878

Jasper, D. and Smith, A.P. (2010) Between Truth and Fiction: A Reader in Literature and Christian Theology. SCM Press: London, UK. ISBN 9780334041924

2009

Jasper, D. (2009) The bible. In: McLoughlin, C.M. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to War Writing. Series: Cambridge companions to topics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 61-70. ISBN 9780521895682

Jasper, D. (2009) Biblical hermeneutics and literary theory. In: Lemon, R., Mason, E., Roberts, J. and Rowland, C. (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Series: Blackwell companions to religion. Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK, pp. 22-37. ISBN 9781405131605

Jasper, D. (2009) Nathan A. Scott Jr's 'The wild prayer of longing'. In: Sugirtharajah, R.S. (ed.) Caught Reading Again: Scholars and their Books. SCM Press: London, UK, pp. 41-53. ISBN 9780334041092

Jasper, D. (2009) The Sacred Body: Asceticism in Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture. Series: Studies in Christianity and literature (4). Baylor University Press. ISBN 9781602581418

2008

Jasper, D. (2008) Do not hide your face from me: the sacred and profane body in art and modern literature. In: Llewellyn, D. and Sawyer, D.F. (eds.) Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Representing the Sacred. Ashgate: Aldershot, UK, pp. 223-237. ISBN 9780754663294

2007

Hass, A., Jasper, D. and Jay, E. (Eds.) (2007) The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199271979

Jasper, D. (2007) Asceticism as a way of love. In: Middleton, P. (ed.) The God of Love and Human Dignity: Essays in Honour of George M. Newlands. Series: T&T Clark theology. T & T Clark: London, UK, pp. 117-126. ISBN 9780567031655

Jasper, D. (2007) The study of literature and theology. In: Hass, A., Jasper, D. and Jay, E. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. Oxford University Press, pp. 15-33. ISBN 0199271976

Walton, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4030-8336 (2007) The feminist literary revisioning of sacred traditions. In: Hass, A., Jasper, D. and Jay, E. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 543-557. ISBN 9780199271979

2006

Jasper, D. (2006) The wheels of the chariot: religious language in English and German romanticism. In: Visser, I. and Wilcox, H. (eds.) Transforming Holiness: Representations of Holiness in English and American Literary Texts. Peeters, pp. 95-111. ISBN 9789042917552

2004

Jasper, D., Newlands, G. and Bird, D. (Eds.) (2004) Believing In The Text: Essays From The Centre For Literature, Theology And The Arts. Series: Religions and discourse. Peter Lang. ISBN 9783039100767

Jasper, D. (2004) The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture. Blackwell. ISBN 1405119748

Jasper, D. (2004) Screening angels: the messenger, Durham Cathedral, 1996. In: Townsend, C. (ed.) The Art of Bill Viola. Thames and Hudson, pp. 180-195. ISBN 0500284725

Jasper, D. (2004) A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics. Westminster John Knox Press: Louisville, USA. ISBN 9780664227517

Articles

Jasper, David (2024) James Gray (?1770–1830): East India Company chaplain. Theology, 127(3), pp. 179-187. (doi: 10.1177/0040571X241249300)

Jasper, David (2024) The scholar priest in the Church of England in the nineteenth century. Journal of Anglican Studies, 22(1), pp. 67-80. (doi: 10.1017/S1740355323000013)

Jasper, David (2023) Nomadland: a film by Chloé Zhao. Expository Times, 134(12), pp. 539-542. (doi: 10.1177/00145246231156324)

O'Donovan, Oliver, Hart, Trevor and Jasper, David (2021) Learning from the pandemic. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 21(2), pp. 138-147. (doi: 10.1080/1474225X.2021.2013525)

Jasper, David (2021) Theology and the university. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 21(3-4), pp. 195-197. (doi: 10.1080/1474225x.2021.2021660)

Jasper, David (2020) Church and state in the nineteenth century and the revival of Thomas Becket. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 20(3-4), pp. 251-263. (doi: 10.1080/1474225X.2020.1863687)

Jasper, David and Smith, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4788-3966 (2019) 'The Lay Folks' Mass Book' and Thomas Frederick Simmons: medievalism and the Tractarians. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 70(4), pp. 785-804. (doi: 10.1017/S002204691900054X)

Jasper, David (2017) Jim Crace: inventor of worlds. Theology, 120(3), pp. 181-189. (doi: 10.1177/0040571X16684428)

Jasper, David and Song, Robert (2016) Love and human relationships: readings from Jeremy Taylor. Theology, 119(2), pp. 99-107. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x15615330)

Jasper, D. (2011) The spiritual in contemporary art. Art and Christianity, 65, pp. 2-6.

Books

Jasper, David and Smith, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4788-3966 (2023) Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England: Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book. Series: Medievalism, 26. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781783277483

Jasper, David (2016) Literature and Theology as a Grammar of Assent. Ashgate Publishing Limited: Farnham. ISBN 9781472475244

Jasper, D. (2012) The Sacred Community: Art, Sacrament, and the People of God. Baylor University Press. ISBN 9781602585584

Jasper, D. (2010) Thinking the Nicene Creed: Death and Resurrection - New Life in Christ. Series: Grosvenor essay (6). Doctrine Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780905573878

Jasper, D. and Smith, A.P. (2010) Between Truth and Fiction: A Reader in Literature and Christian Theology. SCM Press: London, UK. ISBN 9780334041924

Jasper, D. (2009) The Sacred Body: Asceticism in Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture. Series: Studies in Christianity and literature (4). Baylor University Press. ISBN 9781602581418

Jasper, D. (2004) The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture. Blackwell. ISBN 1405119748

Jasper, D. (2004) A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics. Westminster John Knox Press: Louisville, USA. ISBN 9780664227517

Book Sections

Fotiade, Ramona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-4603 and Jasper, David (2016) Jean-Luc Marion: a reflection. In: Givenness and Revelation. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198757733

Jasper, David (2014) The Eucharistic body. In: Fotiade, Ramona, Jasper, David and Salazar-Ferrer, Olivier (eds.) Embodiment: Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying. Series: Intensities: Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 117-130. ISBN 9781472410528

Jasper, D. (2011) The desert landscape: a sunlit landscape amid the night of nonbeing. In: Guibert, P. (ed.) Reflective Landscapes of the Anglophone Countries. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 243-253. ISBN 9789042032613

Jasper, D. (2011) Preface. In: Iolana, P. and Tongue, S. (eds.) Testing the Boundaries: Self, Faith, Interpretation and Changing Trends in Religious Studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, xi-xii. ISBN 9781443826693

Jasper, D. (2010) Pre-Raphaelite biblical art in Wales. In: O'Kane, M. and Morgan-Guy, J. (eds.) Biblical Art from Wales. Phoenix Academic Pres: Sheffield, pp. 139-153. ISBN 9781906055677

Jasper, D. (2010) The eucharistic body in art and literature. In: Watson, N.K. and Burns, S. (eds.) Exchanges of Grace: Essays in Honour of Ann Loades. SCM Press: London, UK, pp. 213-223. ISBN 9780334041672

Jasper, D. (2010) Gadamer. In: Patte, D. (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 443-444. ISBN 9780521820967

Jasper, D. (2010) Hermeneutics. In: Patte, D. (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 508-509. ISBN 9780521820967

Jasper, D. (2010) The Pilgrim's Regress and Surprised by Joy. In: MacSwain, R. and Ward, M. (eds.) Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis. Series: Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 223-236. ISBN 9780521884136

Jasper, D. (2010) Konstnaren och religionen i samtiden. In: Ekstrand, T., Essunger, M., Martinson, M. and Westerlund, K. (eds.) Mening och Mönster: Bilder av Teologi och Livsåskådningsforskning: Festskrift till Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm. Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Uppsala studies in faiths and ideologies (25). University of Uppsala: Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 184-195. ISBN 9789155477318

Jasper, D. (2010) "Something understood": from poetry to theology in the writings of George Herbert. In: Hodgkins, C. (ed.) George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest of Bemerton. University of Delaware Press: Newark, USA, pp. 271-287. ISBN 9780874130225

Jasper, D. (2010) Termes recurrents dans l'Univers Kantien: 'sujet' et 'objet' chez S.T. Coleridge. In: Gallet, R. and Guibert, P. (eds.) Le Sujet Romantique et le Monde: La Voie Anglaise. Series: Symposia. Presses Universitaires de Caen: Caen, France, pp. 209-222. ISBN 9782841333363

Jasper, D. (2009) The bible. In: McLoughlin, C.M. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to War Writing. Series: Cambridge companions to topics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 61-70. ISBN 9780521895682

Jasper, D. (2009) Biblical hermeneutics and literary theory. In: Lemon, R., Mason, E., Roberts, J. and Rowland, C. (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Series: Blackwell companions to religion. Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK, pp. 22-37. ISBN 9781405131605

Jasper, D. (2009) Nathan A. Scott Jr's 'The wild prayer of longing'. In: Sugirtharajah, R.S. (ed.) Caught Reading Again: Scholars and their Books. SCM Press: London, UK, pp. 41-53. ISBN 9780334041092

Jasper, D. (2008) Do not hide your face from me: the sacred and profane body in art and modern literature. In: Llewellyn, D. and Sawyer, D.F. (eds.) Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Representing the Sacred. Ashgate: Aldershot, UK, pp. 223-237. ISBN 9780754663294

Jasper, D. (2007) Asceticism as a way of love. In: Middleton, P. (ed.) The God of Love and Human Dignity: Essays in Honour of George M. Newlands. Series: T&T Clark theology. T & T Clark: London, UK, pp. 117-126. ISBN 9780567031655

Jasper, D. (2007) The study of literature and theology. In: Hass, A., Jasper, D. and Jay, E. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. Oxford University Press, pp. 15-33. ISBN 0199271976

Walton, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4030-8336 (2007) The feminist literary revisioning of sacred traditions. In: Hass, A., Jasper, D. and Jay, E. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 543-557. ISBN 9780199271979

Jasper, D. (2006) The wheels of the chariot: religious language in English and German romanticism. In: Visser, I. and Wilcox, H. (eds.) Transforming Holiness: Representations of Holiness in English and American Literary Texts. Peeters, pp. 95-111. ISBN 9789042917552

Jasper, D. (2004) Screening angels: the messenger, Durham Cathedral, 1996. In: Townsend, C. (ed.) The Art of Bill Viola. Thames and Hudson, pp. 180-195. ISBN 0500284725

Book Reviews

Jasper, David (2025) Andrew Hass, Mattias Martinson and Laurens ten Kate, The Music of Theology: Language, Space, Silence. Theology, 128(2), pp. 147-148. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x251322338l)[Book Review]

Jasper, David (2025) George Pattison, Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature, and Life. Theology, 128(2), pp. 136-137. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x251322338c)[Book Review]

Jasper, David (2024) Francesca Cioni, Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert. Theology, 127(3), pp. 222-223. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x241249308i)[Book Review]

Jasper, David (2024) Jeremy S. Begbie,Abundantly More: The Theological Promise of the Arts in aReductionist World (Grand Rapids MI: Baker Academic, 2023); xxþ251 pp.:9781540965431, $39.99 (hbk). Theology, 127(1), pp. 50-51. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x231222201)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Jasper, David and Wright, Jenny (Eds.) (2019) Truth and the Church in a Secular Age. SCM Press: London. ISBN 9780334058168

Fotiade, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-4603, Jasper, D. and Salazar-Ferrer, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6130-6095 (Eds.) (2014) Embodiment: Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying. Series: Intensities: Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion. Ashgate. ISBN 9781472410528

Jasper, D. (Ed.) (2012) The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant: Part II, Volume 8. Writings on Biography II. Pickering & Chatto: London. ISBN 9781851966080 (set)

Hass, A., Jasper, D. and Jay, E. (Eds.) (2007) The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199271979

Jasper, D., Newlands, G. and Bird, D. (Eds.) (2004) Believing In The Text: Essays From The Centre For Literature, Theology And The Arts. Series: Religions and discourse. Peter Lang. ISBN 9783039100767