A rhapsody of love and spirituality
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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9780875861951, 9781280655791, 0875861954, 1280655798
1090455951
Two vast antagonists : Longus and Plato
The lover's coach and the apple fallen from Plato's tree : Ovid and Aristotle
Eros and the Bible : romantic scriptures, ambiguous interpretations, and Gregory of Nyssa's platonic biblical allegories
Bad news for lovers : Saint John, Saint Chrysostom Jerome, and Saint Augustine
Knights and ladies versus the monks : chivalric romance and ascetic discipline
A crippled attempt to salvage marriage and a popular movement against it : Thomas Aquinas and The cloud of unknowing
The romancers strike back : Martin Luther, Sir Edmund Spenser, and the Puritans
Radical theologian of true love : Emanuel Swedenborg
The eternal feminine : Shelley and intellectual beauty
The death of God, the end of love : T.S. Eliot's Tthe waste land
Ancient echoes in modern halls : the recent erotic spirituality of Vatican II, David Matzko McCarthy, Karl Barth, and Eberhard Jungel
A heap of broken images? : erotic love and spirituality in the post-modern age