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Cover; FRANCISCO DE OSUNA AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LETTER; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER I. OSUNA AND HIS COMMENTATORS; Osuna's Life and Work: Problems; Structure and Style in the Castilian Works; CHAPTER II. THE NATURAL LAW OF LOVE; Love: the Unifying Force; God, Man, and Angels; Self-love; The Will; Natural Love and Grace; Corazón y ánima; CHAPTER III. MEDITATION AND CONTEMPLATION: CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT; The Eagle; Itinerary of Meditation; CHAPTER IV. THE EAGLE DESCENDS: INCARNATION OF THE WORD; The Expansion of Language; CHAPTER V. OSUNA'S DIALECTIC AND RHETORIC |
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Scripture and the Book of CreaturesA Scriptural Exegesis; Emotions; Prolixity and Abbreviation; Obscurity; CHAPTER VI. MEDITATION OF A FIGURED PASSAGE; The First Three Alphabets; The Position of Treatise IV, Third Alphabet; A Summary of Treatise IV; The Heart and the Blood; The Soul and the Body: Further Details on the Heart; Some Theories about the Heart and the Blood; CHAPTER VII. SOME MAJOR FIGURES OF TREATISE IV; Mutability of the Heart; Figures of Will and Decision; The Double Meaning of the Praeteritio; The Castle, the Terrestrial Paradise and the Ark of the Covenant |
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CHAPTER VIII. AN ANAGOGICAL LEVEL: ITS REVELATION AND ITS PURPOSESymbols of the Virgin; Some Cosmic Concepts Suggested by the Figures; Time and Eternity: Universal and Particular; Baptism; Figurative Language; CHAPTER IX. THE ALPHABETS: STYLE AND CONTENT; The Plain Style; The Figured Style; Figures as a Memory Aid; The Science and Art of Contemplation; Osuna's Ideas and Style in Historical Perspective; The Poetic of Correspondences; INDEX; ADDENDA |
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Osuna, Francisco de, -approximately 1540.
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Osuna, Francisco de, -approximately 1540 |
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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Electronic book
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1469639076 |
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9781469639079 |
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