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Love - Carter Lindberg

Love

A Brief History Through Western Christianity

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-23598-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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.

Carter Lindberg is Professor Emeritus of Church History at Boston University School of Theology. He is the author of numerous books, including A Brief History of Christianity (2005), The Pietist Theologians (2004), The Reformation Theologians (2001), and The European Reformations (1995), all published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Preface ix

1 The Language of Love 1

2 Biblical Views of Love 19

3 A World Without Love? The Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity 36

4 Caritas: The Augustinian Synthesis of Biblical Agape and Hellenistic Eros 51

5 Love and the Individual: Abelard and Bernard 66

6 Mystics and Troubadours 84

7 Faith Formed by Love: Scholasticism 103

8 Faith Active in Love: Reformation 118

9 Love as Service: Pietism and the Diaconal Movements 133

10 Love in the Modern World 146

Conclusion: Concluding Unscientific Postscript 168

Bibliography 172

Index 191

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.3.2008
Reihe/Serie Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 142 x 196 mm
Gewicht 345 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-631-23598-1 / 0631235981
ISBN-13 978-0-631-23598-9 / 9780631235989
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