A rhapsody of love and spirituality / David Fekete.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fekete, David J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love.

Spirituality.

Physical Description:

306 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., [2003]

Summary:

Love between a man and a woman: is it sacred or sinful? A Rhapsody of Love and Spirituality explores 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.

Contents:

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 Chrysostom, Saint 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 The 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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0875862454

0875862446

0875861954

OCLC:

52963293