The Language of Liturgy: A Ritual Poetics

David Jasper is professor of literature and theology at Glasgow University and distinguished overseas professor at Renmin University of China, Beijing. He holds degrees from Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, and Uppsala, and is doctor of divinity at Oxford and holds a doctorate in theology (h.c.) from Uppsala. He has published and lectured widely in the field of literature and theology, and his most recent book is Literature and Theology as a Grammar of Assent (2016). He is an ordained Anglican priest.