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Rhapsody of Love and Spirituality.
Title:
Rhapsody of Love and Spirituality.
Author:
Fekete, David.
ISBN:
9780875861951
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (314 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter I. Two Vast Antagonists: Longus and Plato -- Introduction -- Daphnis and Chloe -- Plato and Transcendent Love -- Either Or -- Chapter II. The Lover's Coach and the Apple Fallen from Plato's Tree: Ovid and Aristotle -- Ovid: The Lover's Coach -- Remedies For Love -- Aristotle: How Far Has The Apple Fallen From Plato's Tree? -- Chapter III. Eros and the Bible: Romantic Scriptures, Ambiguous Interpretations, and Gregory of Nyssa's Platonic Biblical Allegories -- Gregory of Nyssa: The Song of Songs becomes a Platonic Journey -- Chapter IV. Bad News for Lovers: Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Jerome, and Saint Augustine -- Saint John Chrysostom -- Saint Jerome -- Saint Augustine -- Chapter V. Knights and Ladies versus the Monks: Chivalric Romance and Ascetic Discipline -- Chivalric Romance -- Tristan and Isolde -- The Quest of the Holy Grail: The Undoing of Chivalry -- Chapter VI. A Crippled Attempt to Salvage Marriage and A Popular Movement Against It: Thomas Aquinas and the Cloud of Unknowing -- Thomas Aquinas -- The Cloud of Unknowing -- Chapter VII. The Romancers Strike Back: Martin Luther, Sir Edmund Spenser, and the Puritans -- What's Love Got To Do with It - Martin Luther -- Sir Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene -- The Puritans -- Chapter VIII. Radical Theologian of True Love: Emanuel Swedenborg -- Chapter IX. The Eternal Feminine: Shelley and Intellectual Beauty -- Chapter X. The Death of God, The End of Love: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land -- Eros In The Waste Land -- Chapter XI. Ancient Voices Echo in Modern Halls: The Recent Erotic Spirituality of Vatican II and David Matzko Mccarthy, Karl Barth, and Eberhard Jungel -- Vatican II -- David Matzko McCarthy -- Karl Barth -- Eberhard Jungel -- Chapter XII. A Heap of Broken Images? Erotic Love and Spirituality in the Post-Modern Age.

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Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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