A Rhapsody of Love and SpiritualityAlgora Publishing, 2003 - 306 páginas 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. |
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... nature of love. Its author hopes his book will heal broken humanity. His book is, . . . something to heal the sick and comfort the afflicted, to refresh the memory of those who have been in love and educate those who have not. For no ...
... nature of love. Its author hopes his book will heal broken humanity. His book is, . . . something to heal the sick and comfort the afflicted, to refresh the memory of those who have been in love and educate those who have not. For no ...
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... Nature gods that they know. The interaction between Daphnis and Chloe and their gods adds charm and color to the tale. The gods of this pastoral romance are not the awesome sky gods of Olympus, such as Zeus, Apollo, or Athena. In this ...
... Nature gods that they know. The interaction between Daphnis and Chloe and their gods adds charm and color to the tale. The gods of this pastoral romance are not the awesome sky gods of Olympus, such as Zeus, Apollo, or Athena. In this ...
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... nature as we experience it. Daphnis and Chloe were friends for a long time before they fell in love. They were ... natural. Modern readers might be interested to know that the girl first feels love. Perhaps this fact is natural in ...
... nature as we experience it. Daphnis and Chloe were friends for a long time before they fell in love. They were ... natural. Modern readers might be interested to know that the girl first feels love. Perhaps this fact is natural in ...
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... nature, which is all she knows, but can't understand this new experience. How often I've been scratched by brambles and not cried! How often I've been stung by bees and not screamed! But this thing that's pricked my heart hurts more ...
... nature, which is all she knows, but can't understand this new experience. How often I've been scratched by brambles and not cried! How often I've been stung by bees and not screamed! But this thing that's pricked my heart hurts more ...
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... nature motifs. And now in Daphnis, Longus arouses in his readers the early promptings of love. Whatever is Chloe's kiss doing to me? Her lips are softer than roses and her mouth is sweeter than honey, but her kiss hurts more than the ...
... nature motifs. And now in Daphnis, Longus arouses in his readers the early promptings of love. Whatever is Chloe's kiss doing to me? Her lips are softer than roses and her mouth is sweeter than honey, but her kiss hurts more than the ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 222 - Our breath shall intermix, our bosoms bound, And our veins beat together; and our lips With other eloquence than words, eclipse The soul that burns between them, and the wells Which boil under our being's inmost cells, The fountains of our deepest life, shall be Confused in passion's golden purity, As mountain-springs under the morning Sun. We shall become the same, we shall be one Spirit within two frames, oh ! wherefore two?
Página 243 - She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when a sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent, So that in guys it gently sways at ease, And its supporting central cedar pole, That is its pinnacle to heavenward And signifies the sureness of the soul, Seems to owe naught to any single cord, But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round...
Página 21 - Is there no change of death in paradise ? Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang...