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Love

Name: Love
Author: Carter Lindberg

A Brief History Through Western Christianity

Carter Lindberg

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23,99 €

John Wiley & Sons

Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeines, Lexika

Beschreibung

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 evolution and impact of this timeless topic. * * Takes the reader on a lightning but enlightening journey through 3,000 years of the idea of love * Examines the influential movements, people, and work that have helped shape our notion of love in Western culture, written by a key figure in religious history * Tackles the historical and religious concept in Western society, and our efforts to apply ideas of love to social concerns * Explores diverse periods and examples - from the theological and philosophical texts of figures such as Augustine, Luther, and Feuerbach to intellectual movements like Romanticism and tragic historic figures such as Abelard and Heloise * Contributes valuable insights into one of history's most inexhaustible and timeless topics, spanning biblical views of love including monasticism and pietism, romantic notions of love, through to today's liberal religion and concept of love as self-fulfillment.

Rezensionen

(Lutheran Quaterly, 2011)
"Lindberg's readable and enjoyable history is framed by an account of eros and agape." (International Journal of Systematic Theology, 19 June 2015) "Overall, Lindberg offers a significant work, one which will be helpful for pastors, seminarians, graduate students, and interested lay people."

(Reviews in Religion & Theology, 2010)
"Lindberg has written an excellent book that deserves a wide readership. Its vastness of scope is breathtaking and its selection of topics comprehensive.."

(The Catholic Historical Review, January 2009)
"Any scholar or general reader who wishes to grapple with the nature of love may find this book and its bibliography a fine place to start."

(Church Times, November 2008)
"A wonderful overview of the ways in which the theme of love has been presented and reflected upon from biblical times to the late 20th century."

"This book is doubly impressive, both for covering so much material so expertly in such a short space and also for doing it with such elegant prose."

-Paul Rorem, Princeton Theological Seminary

"I didn't think there was anything new to say about 'love', but Professor Lindberg's history of love is wonderfully refreshing. He draws judiciously on a vast and varied treasure of fact and theory - including erotic, neighbourly and religious love - to portray a dynamic, multi-dimensional phenomenon; ever changing and reaching out for new connections in all kinds of ways."

-Trond Skard Dokka, University of Norway

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