Love a brief history through western Christianity
Title:
Love a brief history through western Christianity
Author:
Lindberg, Carter, 1937-
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Publication Information:
Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Physical Description:
xii, 195 p. cm.
Series:
Blackwell brief histories of religion series
Blackwell brief histories of religion.
Contents:
The language of love -- Biblical views of love -- A world without love : the Greco-Roman world and early Christianity -- Caritas : the augustinian synthesis of biblical agape and hellenistic eros -- Love and the individual : Abelard and Bernard -- Mystics and troubadours -- Faith formed by love : scholasticism -- Faith active in love : Reformation -- Love as service : pietism and the diaconal movements -- Love in the modern world.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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