A Rhapsody of Love and Spirituality

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Algora Publishing, 2003 - Всего страниц: 306
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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Acknowledgments
1
Preface
3
Longus and Plato
5
Ovid and Aristotle
27
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
299
Index
303
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Martin Luther Sir Edmund Spenser and the Puritans
161

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Стр. 225 - What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water.
Стр. 67 - Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
Стр. 64 - DEARLY beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this congregation, to join together this Man and this Woman in holy Matrimony...
Стр. 189 - Hail wedded love! mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Стр. 63 - Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, and is Himself its Savior.
Стр. 189 - Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known. Far be it, that I should write thee sin or blame, Or think thee unbefitting holiest place...
Стр. 228 - That corpse you planted last year in your garden, "Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? "Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? "Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men, "Or with his nails he'll dig it up again! "You! hypocrite lecteur!— mon semblable,— mon frere!
Стр. 66 - For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh (Gen.

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