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1 The First Night Out of Eden : David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon David Jasper , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature and Theology , June vol. 31 no. 2 2017; (p. 215–230)

'This article focuses particularly upon David Malouf’s novel Remembering Babylon as it examines Malouf as a spiritual writer whose works explore the liminality of space in Australia and the boundaries between worlds, both real and literary. The article moves between the classical studies of John Keble and the philosophy of Martin Heidegger to establish the place of the sacramental in Malouf’s writings, a novelist and poet who bears comparison with the French poet Yves Bonnefoy.' (Publication abstract)
1 Secularisation Without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee. By Vincent P. Pecora. David Jasper , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Literature and Theology , December vol. 30 no. 4 2016; (p. 499-500) 'Vincent Pecora’s learned and challenging book on the later years of the European novel begins by rooting his thesis firmly in the intellectual depths of the 20th century and its sense of the secularisation of European thought in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, the sweeping theses of Hans Blumenberg in The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, and the literary thought of Erich Auerbach. All is then brought together in the context of the novel and its reflection of the haunting afterlife of Reformed theology in the processes of endless ‘secularization’. We cannot, it seems, escape Christian theology’s often grim consequences, with their roots in the theology of St. Augustine and their later workings in the thought of Jean Calvin.' (Introduction)
1 Liturgy and Language David Jasper , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr 2016; 'I first encountered Barry Spurr long before I actually met him in the University of Sydney, as is often the way with academics, through an essay on the 1978 An Australian Prayer Book which he contributed to a book entitled No Alternative: The Prayer Book Controversy (1981).1 It was written at a time of immense liturgical revisionary activity of which I was profoundly aware myself, partly because I had been ordained as a priest in the Church of England in 1977, but more specifically because my father, also an Anglican priest, was a liturgist and the Chairman of the Church of England Liturgical Commission which was responsible for the Alternative Service Book (ASB) published in 1980, the first radically new attempt at the revision of worship in the Church of England for over three hundred years since the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. My father, Ronald Jasper, was thus perceived by many as one of the “well-intentioned wreckers”2 who were robbing the Anglican Church of its liturgical strengths and above all the glories of its language.' (Introduction)
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