David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow and Distinguished Overseas Professor at Renmin University of China, Beijing. He holds degrees from Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and Uppsala Universities. His most recent book is Literature and Theology as a Grammar of Assent (Routledge, 2016) and he has just completed a book on liturgical language. He has been an ordained Anglican Priest for forty years and is Canon Theologian of Glasgow Episcopal Cathedral.