A rhapsody of love and spirituality / David Fekete.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302) and index.

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.

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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.

English.

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