Professor David Jasper
- Honorary Professorial Research Fellow (School of Critical Studies)
email:
David.Jasper@glasgow.ac.uk
R304 Level 3, Theology and Religious Studies, 4 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Publications
2021
O'Donovan, O., Hart, T. and Jasper, D. (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)
2020
Jasper, D. (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, D. and Smith, J. (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, D. and Wright, J. (Eds.) (2019) Truth and the Church in a Secular Age. SCM Press: London. ISBN 9780334058168
2017
Jasper, D. (2017) Jim Crace: inventor of worlds. Theology, 120(3), pp. 181-189. (doi: 10.1177/0040571X16684428)
2016
Fotiade, R. and Jasper, D. (2016) Jean-Luc Marion: a reflection. In: Givenness and Revelation. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198757733
Jasper, D. and Song, R. (2016) Love and human relationships: readings from Jeremy Taylor. Theology, 119(2), pp. 99-107. (doi: 10.1177/0040571x15615330)
Jasper, D. (2016) Literature and Theology as a Grammar of Assent. Ashgate Publishing Limited: Farnham. ISBN 9781472475244
2014
Fotiade, R. , Jasper, D. and Salazar-Ferrer, O. (Eds.) (2014) Embodiment: Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying. Series: Intensities: Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion. Ashgate. ISBN 9781472410528
Jasper, D. (2014) The Eucharistic body. In: Fotiade, R., Jasper, D. and Salazar-Ferrer, O. (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. (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
O'Donovan, O., Hart, T. and Jasper, D. (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, D. (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, D. and Smith, J. (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, D. (2017) Jim Crace: inventor of worlds. Theology, 120(3), pp. 181-189. (doi: 10.1177/0040571X16684428)
Jasper, D. and Song, R. (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, D. (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, R. and Jasper, D. (2016) Jean-Luc Marion: a reflection. In: Givenness and Revelation. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198757733
Jasper, D. (2014) The Eucharistic body. In: Fotiade, R., Jasper, D. and Salazar-Ferrer, O. (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. (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
Edited Books
Jasper, D. and Wright, J. (Eds.) (2019) Truth and the Church in a Secular Age. SCM Press: London. ISBN 9780334058168
Fotiade, R. , Jasper, D. and Salazar-Ferrer, O. (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