Love: a brief history through Western Christianity
Taking the reader on an enlightening journey through 3000 years of the idea of love, this book examines the influential movements, people and work that have helped shape our notion of love in western culture. It explores a diverse range of periods and examples, from Augustine to Luther to Romanticis...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
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Malden, Ma. [u.a.]
Blackwell Publ.
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Series/Journal: | Blackwell brief histories of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Love
/ Christian life
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Love
Religious aspects
Christianity
B Love Religious aspects Christianity |
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| Summary: | Taking the reader on an enlightening journey through 3000 years of the idea of love, this book examines the influential movements, people and work that have helped shape our notion of love in western culture. It explores a diverse range of periods and examples, from Augustine to Luther to Romanticism. |
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| Item Description: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - 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 |
| ISBN: | 0631235981 |