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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... reasons, I have written this book, entitled A Rhapsody ofLove and Spirituality. I consider a vast kaleidoscope of humanity's relation to love: Platonic “Eros,” Christian mysticism, friendship, religious ritual, and sexual love as people ...
... reasons, I have written this book, entitled A Rhapsody ofLove and Spirituality. I consider a vast kaleidoscope of humanity's relation to love: Platonic “Eros,” Christian mysticism, friendship, religious ritual, and sexual love as people ...
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... reason why rivers run and winds blow.15 Philetas suggests an idea articulated by an ancient Greek philosopher. Like Chloe, Daphnis searches for a name for his new experience — “I don't even know what to call it.” 16. Ibid. 17. Martha ...
... reason why rivers run and winds blow.15 Philetas suggests an idea articulated by an ancient Greek philosopher. Like Chloe, Daphnis searches for a name for his new experience — “I don't even know what to call it.” 16. Ibid. 17. Martha ...
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... reason why the rivers run and winds blow.” Philetas also tells the couple the only way to find relief for their feelings: “The only remedies are kissing and embracing and lying down together with naked bodies.”16 The story enters its ...
... reason why the rivers run and winds blow.” Philetas also tells the couple the only way to find relief for their feelings: “The only remedies are kissing and embracing and lying down together with naked bodies.”16 The story enters its ...
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... reason. Plato keeps this emphasis on reason in all his works. The ladder begins in the philosopher's youth. As a youth, one devotes oneself to beautiful bodies. Initially, he or she chooses one beautiful body. “First, if the leader ...
... reason. Plato keeps this emphasis on reason in all his works. The ladder begins in the philosopher's youth. As a youth, one devotes oneself to beautiful bodies. Initially, he or she chooses one beautiful body. “First, if the leader ...
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... reason, not the eye. It is beyond every color or anything that is created, mortal, or finite. It is Beauty itself: But how would it be . . . if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, abso- lute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human ...
... reason, not the eye. It is beyond every color or anything that is created, mortal, or finite. It is Beauty itself: But how would it be . . . if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, abso- lute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human ...
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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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