Love: a brief history through western Christianity
Carter Lindberg
Edition 1
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Title and Author
Love: a brief history through western Christianity / Carter LindbergPublication Details
مالدن : Blackwell Pub.، 2008مPhysical Description
xii, 195 p.; 19 cm..Subject
Love Religious aspects Christianityseries
(Blackwell brief histories of religion series؛ )Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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