David Jasper

David Jasper is a theologian, currently Professor of Literature and Theology and Associate Dean for Postgraduates at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He was a founder of the Conference on Literature and Religion at Durham University in 1980. Since then, a series of international meetings have been organized every other year by the organization, providing an important forum for the inter-disciplinary study of literature and theology in contemporary Europe. David Jasper himself is one of the most distinguished European scholars of this field. His recent research has been into some of the earliest of Christian theologians, hermits and Desert theology.