A rhapsody of love and spirituality
By: by David J. Fekete.
Publisher: Algora Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Love.; Spirituality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Two vast antagonists : Longus and Plato; title: The lover's coach and the apple fallen from Plato's tree : Ovid and Aristotle; title: Eros and the Bible : romantic scriptures, ambiguous interpretations, and Gregory of Nyssa's platonic biblical allegories; title: Bad news for lovers : Saint John, Saint Chrysostom Jerome, and Saint Augustine; title: Knights and ladies versus the monks : chivalric romance and ascetic discipline; title: A crippled attempt to salvage marriage and a popular movement against it : Thomas Aquinas and The cloud of unknowing; title: The romancers strike back : Martin Luther, Sir Edmund Spenser, and the Puritans; title: Radical theologian of true love : Emanuel Swedenborg; title: The eternal feminine : Shelley and intellectual beauty; title: The death of God, the end of love : T.S. Eliot's Tthe waste land; title: Ancient echoes in modern halls : the recent erotic spirituality of Vatican II,  David Matzko McCarthy, Karl Barth, and Eberhard Jungel; title: A heap of broken images? : erotic love and spirituality in the post-modern age.