A Rhapsody of Love and SpiritualityAlgora Publishing, 2003 - 306 էջ 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. |
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... origins of some of today's confusions: we will understand where we have come from, and so, where we are now. Musing On Phaedrus Did we ride in heaven together — 5 Chapter I. Two Vast Antagonists: Longus and Plato Introduction.
... origins of some of today's confusions: we will understand where we have come from, and so, where we are now. Musing On Phaedrus Did we ride in heaven together — 5 Chapter I. Two Vast Antagonists: Longus and Plato Introduction.
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... heaven, where they used to live, and their souls begin to grow wings. So goes Plato's poetic description of love in his book Phaedrus1. His description of love is passionate: the lover shivers and experiences holy dread; he grows hot ...
... heaven, where they used to live, and their souls begin to grow wings. So goes Plato's poetic description of love in his book Phaedrus1. His description of love is passionate: the lover shivers and experiences holy dread; he grows hot ...
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... heaven. The soul is compared to a winged charioteer driving a chariot pulled by two different horses. One is noble and responds to his charioteer, and the other is disobedient and wild: The horse that is harnessed on the senior side is ...
... heaven. The soul is compared to a winged charioteer driving a chariot pulled by two different horses. One is noble and responds to his charioteer, and the other is disobedient and wild: The horse that is harnessed on the senior side is ...
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... heaven. Our bodies grow warm and our souls begin to grow the wings back that were broken when we fell. But if we ever want to get back to heaven, we must nurture the rational quality in our souls. The Ideal Forms are grasped only by ...
... heaven. Our bodies grow warm and our souls begin to grow the wings back that were broken when we fell. But if we ever want to get back to heaven, we must nurture the rational quality in our souls. The Ideal Forms are grasped only by ...
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... heaven upon his happy demise. So, if the higher elements in their minds prevail, and guide them into a way of life which is strictly devoted to the pursuit of wisdom, they will pass their time on Earth in happiness and harmony; by ...
... heaven upon his happy demise. So, if the higher elements in their minds prevail, and guide them into a way of life which is strictly devoted to the pursuit of wisdom, they will pass their time on Earth in happiness and harmony; by ...
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Romantic Scriptures Ambiguous Interpretations and Gregory of Nyssas Platonic Biblical Allegories | 59 |
Saint John Chrysostom Saint Jerome and Saint Augustine | 91 |
Chivalric Romance and Ascetic Discipline | 113 |
Thomas Aquinas and the Cloud of Unknowing | 147 |
Emanuel Swedenborg | 189 |
Shelley and Intellectual Beauty | 203 |
T S Eliots The Waste Land | 223 |
The Recent Erotic Spirituality of Vatican II and David Matzko Mccarthy Karl Barth and Eberhard Jungel | 237 |
Chapter XII A Heap of Broken Images? Erotic Love and Spirituality in the PostModern Age | 267 |
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Martin Luther Sir Edmund Spenser and the Puritans | 161 |
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