David L. Jeffrey
David
Lyle Jeffrey, Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities,
received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1968, his B.A. from Wheaton College
in 1965. Previously Chair of two English Departments (University of
Victoria, University of Ottawa), he has taught also at the University
of Rochester, University of Hull (U.K.) and been a visiting faculty
member at Notre Dame and at Regent College (U.B.C.). He was elected
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996. His principal scholarly
interests include the Bible in/as Literature; Historical Hermeneutics;
Literature and Christian Spirituality; Medieval Literature; Literary
and Art Historical relations; Intellectual and Religious Foundations
of Literary Modernism.
- The Early English Lyric and Franciscan Spirituality
(1975)
- Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (1984)
- Toward a Perfect Love: the Spiritual Counsel of
Walter Hilton (1986; 2000)
- English Spirituality in The Age Wesley (1987; 1994;
2001)
- The Law of Love: English Spirituality in The Age
of Wyclif (2000)
- Jack Hodgins and his Works (1990)
- (with B.J. Levy) The Anglo-Norman Lyric (1990)
- (General Ed & Co-author) A Dictionary of Biblical
Tradition in English Literature (1992)
- People of The Book: Christian Identity and Literary
Culture (1996)
- (with D. Manganiello) Rethinking the Future of the University (1998)