It takes the average reader 3 hours and 22 minutes to read A Theology Of Reading by Alan Jacobs
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If the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the “law of love”—the twofold love of God and one’s neighbor—what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique book. Jacobs pursues this challenging task by alternating largely theoretical, theological chapters—drawing above all on Augustine and Mikhail Bakhtin—with interludes that investigate particular readers (some real, some fictional) in the act of reading. Among the authors considered are Shakespeare, Cervantes, Nabakov, Nicholson Baker, George Eliot, W.H. Auden, and Dickens. The theoretical...
A Theology Of Reading by Alan Jacobs is 197 pages long, and a total of 50,629 words.
This makes it 66% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 36 minutes to read A Theology Of Reading aloud.
A Theology Of Reading is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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