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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... passion for the issues this book raises. Considering when it was that I first thought of writing a book like this, the final product was a long time in the making. You could say that it grew out of my many years in graduate school at ...
... passion for the issues this book raises. Considering when it was that I first thought of writing a book like this, the final product was a long time in the making. You could say that it grew out of my many years in graduate school at ...
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... passion for his beloved; his property means nothing to him; he scorns civilized behavior if only he can live near ... passion. And poetry, since it “waters” the passions and “makes them grow,” must be replaced by dispassionate philosophy ...
... passion for his beloved; his property means nothing to him; he scorns civilized behavior if only he can live near ... passion. And poetry, since it “waters” the passions and “makes them grow,” must be replaced by dispassionate philosophy ...
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... passion and a desire. “[H]e feels a desire to see, to touch, to kiss him, and to share his bed.”31 The physical expression of love is treated with loathing by Plato; he considers it beastly: Now the man . . . who has been corrupted.
... passion and a desire. “[H]e feels a desire to see, to touch, to kiss him, and to share his bed.”31 The physical expression of love is treated with loathing by Plato; he considers it beastly: Now the man . . . who has been corrupted.
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... passions and contemplate Beauty Itself. Restraining passion is graphically described by Plato in a metaphor. The charioteer violently restrains the unruly horse: When the driver beholds it [the beautiful body], the sight awakens in him ...
... passions and contemplate Beauty Itself. Restraining passion is graphically described by Plato in a metaphor. The charioteer violently restrains the unruly horse: When the driver beholds it [the beautiful body], the sight awakens in him ...
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... passions to be avoided: . . . pleasure, the chief incitement to wrong, pain, which frightens us from good, confidence and fear, two foolish counsellors, obstinate passion and credulous hope . . . irrational sensation and desire. . . .36 ...
... passions to be avoided: . . . pleasure, the chief incitement to wrong, pain, which frightens us from good, confidence and fear, two foolish counsellors, obstinate passion and credulous hope . . . irrational sensation and desire. . . .36 ...
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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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