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A rhapsody of love and spirituality /
Explores the various facets of love: Platonic eros, Christian mysticism, friendship, religious ritual, and love as people experience it, turning up startling ironies and paradoxes and, along the way, some traditions we may find worth reclaiming.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Pub.,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Two vast antagonists : Longus and Plato
- The lover's coach and the apple fallen from Plato's tree : Ovid and Aristotle
- Eros and the Bible : romantic scriptures, ambiguous interpretations, and Gregory of Nyssa's platonic biblical allegories
- Bad news for lovers : Saint John, Saint Chrysostom Jerome, and Saint Augustine
- Knights and ladies versus the monks : chivalric romance and ascetic discipline
- A crippled attempt to salvage marriage and a popular movement against it : Thomas Aquinas and The cloud of unknowing
- The romancers strike back : Martin Luther, Sir Edmund Spenser, and the Puritans
- Radical theologian of true love : Emanuel Swedenborg
- The eternal feminine : Shelley and intellectual beauty
- The death of God, the end of love : T.S. Eliot's Tthe waste land
- Ancient echoes in modern halls : the recent erotic spirituality of Vatican II, David Matzko McCarthy, Karl Barth, and Eberhard Jungel
- A heap of broken images? : erotic love and spirituality in the post-modern age.