A Rhapsody of Love and SpiritualityAlgora Publishing, 2003 - 306 sider 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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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 |
Martin Luther Sir Edmund Spenser and the Puritans | 161 |
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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!
Side 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.