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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... souls To gaze on the beauty of eternity as if ours. Here, fallen to dirt, when we look in each others' eyes, Is it ... soul must purify itself from all passion. And poetry, since it “waters” the passions and “makes them grow,” must be ...
... souls To gaze on the beauty of eternity as if ours. Here, fallen to dirt, when we look in each others' eyes, Is it ... soul must purify itself from all passion. And poetry, since it “waters” the passions and “makes them grow,” must be ...
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... soul's melting away — but all the same I want to kiss her again. . . . Had Chloe drunk poison just before she kissed me? If so, how did she manage not to be killed? Hear how the nightingales are singing — and my pipe is silent. Look how ...
... soul's melting away — but all the same I want to kiss her again. . . . Had Chloe drunk poison just before she kissed me? If so, how did she manage not to be killed? Hear how the nightingales are singing — and my pipe is silent. Look how ...
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... souls. A love of souls can be directed even at those who are not yet of a sexual age. [H]e must think that the beauty of people's souls is more valuable than the beauty of their bodies, so that if someone is decent in his soul, even ...
... souls. A love of souls can be directed even at those who are not yet of a sexual age. [H]e must think that the beauty of people's souls is more valuable than the beauty of their bodies, so that if someone is decent in his soul, even ...
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... soul is meant to function in it. Consider three beautiful things, things of this world. Consider the Parthenon in Greece; Marilyn Monroe; and Monet's painting, “The Water Lilies.” They are three different things, indeed: a building, a ...
... soul is meant to function in it. Consider three beautiful things, things of this world. Consider the Parthenon in Greece; Marilyn Monroe; and Monet's painting, “The Water Lilies.” They are three different things, indeed: a building, a ...
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... souls that relate to both worlds. To the extent that our soul clings to changing material things, we become like this world and are repeatedly reborn into it. But if our souls cling to the eternal Forms, we become like them and are ...
... souls that relate to both worlds. To the extent that our soul clings to changing material things, we become like this world and are repeatedly reborn into it. But if our souls cling to the eternal Forms, we become like them and are ...
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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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