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Jacobs teaches theology and literary theory for the Honors Program, a field in which his prolific authorship has established him as a leading scholar. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama and received his PhD. Kilby Chair and Professor of English at Wheaton College (Illinois) since 1984. Other books include The Book of Common Prayer: A Biographyand a critical edition of Auden’s The Age of Anxiety (both Princeton University Press, 2013).īefore coming to Baylor, Dr. His next book, Breaking Bread with the Dead: The Case for Temporal Bandwidth, will be published by Penguin Press in 2020. His most recent books are How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds (Currency, 2017) and The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in a Time of Crisis (Oxford UP, 2018). Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

The Narnian by Alan Jacobs