| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Love.
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Spirituality.
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love (emotion)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Love
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Spirituality
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0875861954 |
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9780875861951 |
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1280655798 |
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9781280655791 |
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9786610655793 |
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6610655790 |
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