The Scandal of Reading: Uncovering Holy Wisdom

The Scandal of Reading: Uncovering Holy Wisdom

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The Scandal of Reading: Uncovering Holy Wisdom
The Scandal of Reading: Uncovering Holy Wisdom
Reading for the Love of God

Reading for the Love of God

How to read as a spiritual practice

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Jessica Hooten Wilson
Jul 12, 2022
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For me, graduate school felt like a continuous conversation between disciplines that did not speak one another’s language: literature and theology. I wanted to write a book about what literature readers needed to learn from the church tradition and what the church should glean from reading literature. In a sense, Reading for the Love of God bridges that…

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