David Jasper

Bio

David Jasper is Professor Emeritus of the University of Glasgow where he was formerly Professor of Theology and Literature. He is also an honorary professor of the University of Edinburgh and has been an Anglican priest for almost fifty years. He was Canon Theologian of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. David has taught in universities in China, Australia and the USA. David was a founder of the Conference on Literature and Religion at Durham University in 1980. Since then, a series of international meetings have been organised every other year by the organisation, providing a forum for the inter-disciplinary study of literature and theology in contemporary Europe.