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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... 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 Harvard and The University of Virginia, followed by more years of study, teaching ...
... 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 Harvard and The University of Virginia, followed by more years of study, teaching ...
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... writing. This book is the culmination of a long pilgrimage. I hope that it brings the reader as much satisfaction as it brought me as a searcher and a writer. PREFACE Consider the curious irony of a celibate priest conducting. 2 A ...
... writing. This book is the culmination of a long pilgrimage. I hope that it brings the reader as much satisfaction as it brought me as a searcher and a writer. PREFACE Consider the curious irony of a celibate priest conducting. 2 A ...
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... writers who felt compelled to write defenses of poetry are Plato's own pupil Aristotle, Sir Philip Sidney, William ... writer wrote with the other in mind. Rather, each author represents a way of loving that generates a vast tradition of ...
... writers who felt compelled to write defenses of poetry are Plato's own pupil Aristotle, Sir Philip Sidney, William ... writer wrote with the other in mind. Rather, each author represents a way of loving that generates a vast tradition of ...
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... writers of the Middle Ages did not draw on Longus, despite the appeal of his approach. So, in Plato and Longus, we ... writing a simple story. I have seen apparently jaded and cynical readers come away thoroughly charmed by his magic ...
... writers of the Middle Ages did not draw on Longus, despite the appeal of his approach. So, in Plato and Longus, we ... writing a simple story. I have seen apparently jaded and cynical readers come away thoroughly charmed by his magic ...
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... writer Aristophanes. He suggests that humans were originally round in shape. We had four legs and four arms, and rolled when we wanted to move. Then arrogance overtook us and we attacked the gods. To weaken us, the gods cut us in two ...
... writer Aristophanes. He suggests that humans were originally round in shape. We had four legs and four arms, and rolled when we wanted to move. Then arrogance overtook us and we attacked the gods. To weaken us, the gods cut us in two ...
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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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