Love : A Brief history through western Christianity
3,000 years of ideas about the nature of love in Western culture are brought together in this concise history. By blending the works of many scholars and examining the significant lives, works, and movements associated with love, Love: A Brief History Through Western Christianity traces the... Full description
| Main Author: | Lindberg, Carter. |
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Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2008 |
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Blackwell brief histories of religion
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Table of Contents:
- The language of love
- Biblical views of love
- A world without love? : the Greco-Roman world and early Christianity
- Caritas : the augustinian synthesis of biblical agape and hellenistic eros
- Love and the individual : Abelard and Bernard
- Mystics and troubadours
- Faith formed by love : scholasticism
- Faith active in love : reformation
- Love as service : pietism and the diaconal movements
- Love in the modern world.
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