Alan Jacobs (born 1958)[1] is a scholar of English literature and a literary critic. He is a distinguished professor of the humanities in the honors program of Baylor University.[2]
Alan Jacobs | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 28, 1958 |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Alabama (BA) University of Virginia (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literature |
| Sub-discipline | English literature |
| Institutions | |
| Website | ayjay |
Career
editJacobs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama in 1980 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia in 1987.[3] He was the Clyde S. Kilby chair professor of English at Wheaton College (Illinois) until 2012 when his hiring to Baylor was widely noted as part of the competition between these two Christian colleges.[4]
In addition to his academic work and books, Jacobs has been a regular contributor to magazines including The Atlantic,[2][5] First Things,[2][6] and The New Atlantis.[3][7]
Jacobs is an evangelical Anglican.[8]
Books
editJacobs' books include:
- Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind (Penguin Press, 2020)
- The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis (Oxford, 2018)[9]
- How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds (Currency, 2017)[10]
- "The Book of Common Prayer": A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books, Princeton, 2013)[11]
- The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford, 2011)[12]
- Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant (Eerdmans, 2010)[13]
- Original Sin: A Cultural History (HarperOne, 2008)[14]
- Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life (Eerdmans, 2008)[15]
- The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (Harper, 2005)[16]
- Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling (Eerdmans, 2004)[17]
- Must Christianity Be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology (ed. with Kenneth R. Chase, Brazos Press, 2003)[18]
- A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love (Westview Press, 2001)[19]
- A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age (Brazos Press, 2001)[20]
- What Became of Wystan? Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry (University of Arkansas, 1998)[21]
References
edit- ^ "Jacobs, Alan 1958–", Gale Contemporary Authors, retrieved 2019-07-19
- ^ a b c Michael, David J. (2018). "Alan Jacobs: A Christian Intellectual for the Internet Age". America. Vol. 218, no. 9. New York. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
- ^ a b "Baylor expands with new hire", Baylor Lariat, November 1, 2012
- ^ Olsen, Ted (October 25, 2012), "Baylor Hires Alan Jacobs Away from Wheaton; He'll start at its Honors College in August 2013", Christianity Today
- ^ "Alan Jacobs", Contributor profile, The Atlantic, retrieved 2014-01-11
- ^ "Alan Jacobs", Contributor profile, First Things, 20 March 2017, retrieved 2018-04-07
- ^ "Alan Jacobs", Contributor profile, The New Atlantis, retrieved 2014-01-11
- ^ Jacobs, Alan (October 2018). "Christianity and Resistance: An Interview with Alan Jacobs". Los Angeles Review of Books. Interviewed by Stephenson, Wen. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
- ^ Reviews of The Year of Our Lord 1943:
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
- Mellor, Leo (8 November 2018), "Amid war, intellectual believers worked to imagine a future peacetime society", Times Higher Education
- Wetherbee, James (June 2018), "Review", Library Journal, 143 (10): 73
- Wilson, James Matthew (October 11, 2018), "A School for Eternity", National Review
- Hutchinson, E. J. (October 2018), "Review", Calvinist International
- Cook, James L. (July 2018), Journal of Military Ethics, 17 (2–3): 183–185, doi:10.1080/15027570.2018.1537997, S2CID 149873845
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Thomas, Mike St. (2019), "Review", First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 290: 61
- Stanley, Tim (July 2019), "Review", History Today, 69 (7): 96
- Smith, James K. A. (2019), Journal of Church and State, 61 (2): 321–323, doi:10.1093/jcs/csz013
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Russell, Jesse (July 2019), Christianity & Literature: 014833311986273, doi:10.1177/0148333119862730
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- ^ Reviews of How to Think:
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
- James, Samuel (August 31, 2017), "Review", Mere Orthodoxy
- Backhouse, Stephen (September 20, 2017), "Alan Jacobs: Hating Your Neighbor Will Make You Dumb; How tribalism and culture-warring have ravaged our ability to think", Christianity Today
- Kennedy, Lettie (October 30, 2017), "Excellent food for thought", The Guardian
- Lorenti, Persis (December 20, 2017), "Written out of concern for the increasing nastiness in the culture and social media, in particular, author Alan Jacobs challenges his readers about the ways we think", The Aquila Report
- Torrance, Kelly Jane (December 31, 2017), "Habits of Mind", National Review
- Hartropp, Joseph (February 8, 2018), "How to think: Why you're doing it wrong – and how you can do better", Christian Today
- St. Thomas, Mike (July 17, 2018), "To Think or Not to Think?", The American Interest
- Eckel, Mark (December 2018), Christian Education Journal: Research on Educational Ministry, 15 (3): 515–517, doi:10.1177/0739891318810894f, S2CID 81252298
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Schuurman, Peter (March 24, 2019), "Thinking as Conversion", Christian Courier
- ^ Reviews of The Book of Common Prayer:
- Murphy, John L., "Review", New York Journal of Books
- Swaim, Barton (October 4, 2013), "Henry VIII showed good taste when he asked Thomas Cranmer to craft a text to shape his subjects' worship", The Wall Street Journal
- Wilgus, Alex (October 15, 2013), "A review of Alan Jacobs's new history of Anglicanism's second-most-treasured book", The Common Vision
- Cornwall, Bob (November 15, 2013), "Spiritual Nourishment", Englewood Review
- Maley, W. (2014), "Holy war of weighty words", Times Higher Education, vol. 2, no. 135, p. 52
- Wilson, Douglas (January–February 2014), "What's a Prayer Book for? A "biography" of the Book of the Common Prayer", Books and Culture
- Stubbs, Jacob (April 28, 2014), "The Living Prayer Book", Anglican Way
- Zimmerman, Aaron M. (May 1, 2014), "Review", The Mockingbird
- Weil, Louis (August 2014), Theological Studies, 75 (3): 707–708, doi:10.1177/0040563914538732y, S2CID 170781988
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Coley, Toby F. (2015), Christianity and Literature, 64 (3): 345–347, doi:10.1177/0148333115574237, JSTOR 26194840
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Lineham, Peter, "Review", Relegere: 307–309
- Perry, Nandra (January 2015), Prose Studies, 37 (1): 86–88, doi:10.1080/01440357.2015.1059098, S2CID 162619950
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Nagata, Ada Wong (Spring 2015), "Review", Anglican Theological Review, 97 (2): 345–348, doi:10.1177/000332861509700222, S2CID 237319431
- Targoff, Ramie (June 2015), The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 66 (3): 659–660, doi:10.1017/s0022046915000305, S2CID 164577230
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Sweeney, Sylvia A. (September 2015), Anglican and Episcopal History, 84 (3): 374–376, JSTOR 43685153
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Trott, Garrett (October 2015), Journal of Religious & Theological Information, 14 (3–4): 101–102, doi:10.1080/10477845.2015.1071588, S2CID 148285050
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Tucker, Karen B. Westerfield (2016), "Review", Pro Ecclesia, 25 (2): 240
- ^ Reviews of The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction:
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
- Sanders, Valerie (4 August 2011), "Turn off the TV, hide the phone and wallow in the low-tech luxury of a book", Times Higher Education
- Mackin, Joseph, "Review", New York Journal of Books
- Steeg, Susanna M. (September 2010), Journal of Christian Education, os-53 (2): 71–72, doi:10.1177/002196571005300212, S2CID 165081130
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Kauffman, Richard A. (May 8, 2011), "Review", The Christian Century
- Kois, Dan (June 9, 2011), Easy 'Reading': Just Take It One Page At A Time, NPR
- Deutsch, Abigail (August 8, 2011), "The Whimsical Reader", The Wall Street Journal
- Belgard, Titus K. (2012), "Review", Codex: The Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL, 1 (4): 75–78
- Smith, Carissa Turner (2012), "Review", Christian Scholar's Review, 41 (2): 227–229
- Molitor, Kris (March 2012), Journal of Education and Christian Belief, 16 (1): 111–112, doi:10.1177/205699711201600119, S2CID 164621960
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- ^ Reviews of Wayfaring:
- Barbieri, Richard (September 13, 2010), "Review", America: The Jesuit Review
- Staley-Joyce, Kevin (October 2010), "Review", First Things
- Barrett, Matthew (Spring 2012), Christianity and Literature, 61 (3): 487–490, doi:10.1177/014833311206100314, JSTOR 44315196
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- ^ Reviews of Original Sin:
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
- Chilton, Bruce (May 28, 2008), "Where It All Went Wrong", New York Sun
- Johnston, George Sim (June 13, 2008), "Paradise Lost, Again and Again", Wall Street Journal
- Zaleski, Philip (August 2008), "All Too Human", First Things
- Russell, Jeffrey Burton (Summer 2008), "Bad to the Bone", The Wilson Quarterly, 32 (3): 107–108, JSTOR 40262155
- James, Bill (October 11, 2008), "Are humans all bad to the bone?", Newsweekly
- Jacob (January 2009), "Review", The Mockingbird
- Nazir-Ali, Michael (August 2009), "The Culture of Original Sin", The Expository Times, 120 (12): 605, doi:10.1177/00145246091200120602, S2CID 170187169
- Hobson, Theo (September 2009), Theology, 112 (869): 364–365, doi:10.1177/0040571x0911200506, S2CID 171467983
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Lipscomb, Benjamin J. B. (September 2009), "Review", The Cresset, 73 (1): 56–59
- Ingham, Mary Beth (June 2012), The Heythrop Journal, 53 (4): 690–691, doi:10.1111/j.1468-2265.2012.00748_2.x
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- ^ Reviews of Looking Before and After:
- Armes, John (May 2009), "Give an Account of the Hope That Is in You", The Expository Times, 120 (8): 407–408, doi:10.1177/00145246091200081104, S2CID 170343632
- Werntz, Myles (June 2009), Religious Studies Review, 35 (2): 120, doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2009.01341_19.x
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Moberly, Walter (January 2010), Reviews in Religion & Theology, 17 (1): 50–51, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9418.2009.00465.x
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- ^ Reviews of The Narnian:
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
- Weber, David (December 2005), "Review", The Cresset, 69 (2): 55–57
- Quinn, Dermot (January 2006), "Imagining Narnia", First Things
- Lurie, Alison (February 2006), "The Passion of C.S. Lewis", The New York Review of Books, 53 (2)
- James, Bill (April 1, 2006), "From Shadowlands to Narnia", Newsweekly
- Wehner, Peter (June 2006), "The Imagination of C.S. Lewis", Commentary
- King, Don W. (Summer 2006), "Gold Mining or Gold Digging? The Selling of Narnia", Christianity and Literature, 55 (4): 567–586, doi:10.1177/014833310605500409, JSTOR 44313531
- Murdoch, Brian (December 2006), Literature and Theology, 20 (4): 466–470, doi:10.1093/litthe/frl045, JSTOR 23926972
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Smith, Carrisa (May 26, 2008), "Review", Christ and Pop Culture
- ^ Reviews of Shaming the Devil:
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
- Griffiths, Paul J. (2005), "Briefly noted", First Things, 151: 55
- Baker, J. Robert (Fall 2005), "The Moral Essay Redux", Christianity and Literature, 55 (1): 95–109, doi:10.1177/014833310505500107, JSTOR 44313447
- Larson, Marion (July 2006), Religious Studies Review, 32 (3): 175, doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2006.00086_1.x
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- ^ Reviews of Must Christianity Be Violent:
- Dunn, Larry A. (Fall 2004), "Review", Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum, 33 (2): 212–213
- Nelson-Pallmeyer, Jack (December 27, 2004), "In review", The Christian Century
- Koontz, Ted (2005), "Review", Mennonite Quarterly Review, 79 (4): 561
- Weaver, J. Denny (Spring 2005), "Review", The Conrad Grebel Review, 23 (2)
- ^ Reviews of A Theology of Reading:
- Baker, J. Robert (Summer 2002), Christianity and Literature, 51 (4): 661–663, doi:10.1177/014833310205100410, JSTOR 44313155
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Weele, Michael Vander (Fall 2002), "What Is Reading For?", Christianity and Literature, 52 (1): 57–83, doi:10.1177/014833310205200107, JSTOR 44313177
- Baker, J. Robert (Summer 2002), Christianity and Literature, 51 (4): 661–663, doi:10.1177/014833310205100410, JSTOR 44313155
- ^ Reviews of A Visit to Vanity Fair:
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
- Schaap, James Calvin (October 2001), "Review", Christian Century, 118 (28): 31
- Johnston, Tyler B. (March 2003), Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (PDF), vol. 46 (1 ed.), pp. 140–141
- Baker, J. Robert (Fall 2005), "The Moral Essay Redux", Christianity and Literature, 55 (1): 95–109, doi:10.1177/014833310505500107, JSTOR 44313447
- ^ Review of What Became of Wystan:
- Martin, W. Todd (Fall 2000), South Atlantic Review, vol. 65 (4 ed.), South Atlantic Modern Language Association, pp. 225–228, doi:10.2307/3201650, JSTOR 3201650