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
2024
Jasper, D. (2024) James Gray (?1770–1830): East India Company chaplain. Theology, 127(3), pp. 179-187. (doi: 10.1177/0040571X241249300)
Jasper, D. (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, D. (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, D. and Smith, J. (2023) Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England: Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book. Series: Medievalism, 26. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781783277483
Jasper, D. (2023) Nomadland: a film by Chloé Zhao. Expository Times, 134(12), pp. 539-542. (doi: 10.1177/00145246231156324)
Jasper, D. (2023) The scholar priest in the Church of England in the nineteenth century. Journal of Anglican Studies, (doi: 10.1017/S1740355323000013) (Early Online Publication)
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)
Jasper, D. (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
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
Jasper, D. (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. (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
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
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. (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, D. (2024) James Gray (?1770–1830): East India Company chaplain. Theology, 127(3), pp. 179-187. (doi: 10.1177/0040571X241249300)
Jasper, D. (2023) Nomadland: a film by Chloé Zhao. Expository Times, 134(12), pp. 539-542. (doi: 10.1177/00145246231156324)
Jasper, D. (2023) The scholar priest in the Church of England in the nineteenth century. Journal of Anglican Studies, (doi: 10.1017/S1740355323000013) (Early Online Publication)
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. (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, 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. and Smith, J. (2023) Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England: Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book. Series: Medievalism, 26. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781783277483
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, 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
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, D. (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, D. (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, D. and Wright, J. (Eds.) (2019) Truth and the Church in a Secular Age. SCM Press: London. ISBN 9780334058168