Love
Subtitle: a brief history through western Christianity
By: Carter Lindberg.
Series: Blackwell brief histories of religion series
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780631235989; 9780631235996
Subjects: Love -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The language of love; title: Biblical views of love; title: A world without love : the Greco-Roman world and early Christianity; title: Caritas : the augustinian synthesis of biblical agape and hellenistic eros; title: Love and the individual : Abelard and Bernard; title: Mystics and troubadours; title: Faith formed by love : scholasticism; title: Faith active in love : Reformation; title: Love as service : pietism and the diaconal movements; title: Love in the modern world.