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Divine Enjoyment : A Theology of Passion and Exuberance /
Padilla makes the case for a God of enjoyment who passionately suffers and yearns because of love, and permeably intermingles with the cosmos, loving intensely, and becoming like a divine silhouette of so 'good a lover' that grotesquely incarnates the many, even if appearing improper. The...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Édition: | First edition. |
| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Padilla makes the case for a God of enjoyment who passionately suffers and yearns because of love, and permeably intermingles with the cosmos, loving intensely, and becoming like a divine silhouette of so 'good a lover' that grotesquely incarnates the many, even if appearing improper. The thematic development invites the reader to journey through paths of excess of the intemperate kind initially drawn from the insights of St. Thomas Aquinas on the ecstatic love of God, and encountered in the erotic poetry of mystics like St. Teresa de Avila. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (296 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780823263608 |