David Jasper

David Jasper (born 1 August 1951) is a professor emeritus of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow.

Biography Jasper received multiple degrees from Oxford in both English and Theology. He graduated in English from Jesus College (BA, 1972; MA, 1976) and in Theology from St Stephen's House (BTh, 1975; MA, 1979). He was ordained deacon in 1976 and priest in 1977.

He was a founder of the Conference on Literature and Religion at Durham University in 1980. His recent research has been into some of the earliest of Christian theologians, hermits and Desert theology. On 26 January 2007 Jasper received an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.

In 2014 Jasper became priest in charge of St Cuthbert's Church in Cambuslang, combining this job with his academic work.

Publications Coleridge as Poet and Religious Thinker, (1985) The New Testament and the Literary Imagination, (1987) The Study of Literature and Religion: An Introduction, Second Edition, (1992) Rhetoric, Power and Community: An Exercise in Reserve, (1993) Readings in the Canon of Scripture, (1995) The Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism, (1999) The Bible and Literature: A Reader (with Stephen Prickett), (1999) Religion and Literature: A Reader (with Robert Detweiler), (2000) The Sacred Desert, (2004) A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics, (2004) The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology (co-editor with Andrew W. Hass and Elisabeth Jay), (2007) The Sacred Body, (2009) The Sacred Community, (2012) The Language of Liturgy, (2018) Heaven in Ordinary: Religion and Poetry in a Secular Age, (2018)