A rhapsody of love and spirituality / by Fekete, David J.

Table of 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, Saint Chrysostom 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. …”
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