Lindberg Love

A Brief History Through Western Christianity
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69577-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion

3,000 years of ideas about the nature of love in Western cultureare brought together in this concise history. By blending the worksof many scholars and examining the significant lives, works, andmovements associated with love, Love: A Brief History ThroughWestern Christianity traces the evolution and impact of thistimeless topic.
* * Takes the reader on a lightning but enlightening journeythrough 3,000 years of the idea of love
* Examines the influential movements, people, and work that havehelped shape our notion of love in Western culture, written by akey figure in religious history
* Tackles the historical and religious concept in Westernsociety, and our efforts to apply ideas of love to socialconcerns
* Explores diverse periods and examples - from thetheological and philosophical texts of figures such as Augustine,Luther, and Feuerbach to intellectual movements like Romanticismand tragic historic figures such as Abelard and Heloise
* Contributes valuable insights into one of history's mostinexhaustible and timeless topics, spanning biblical views of loveincluding monasticism and pietism, romantic notions of love,through to today's liberal religion and concept of love asself-fulfillment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindberg, Carter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
1. The Language of Love.
2. Biblical Views of Love.
3. A World Without Love? The Greco-Roman World and EarlyChristianity.
4. Caritas: The Augustinian Synthesis of Biblical Agape andHellenistic Eros.
5. Love and the Individual: Abelard and Bernard.
6. Mystics and Troubadours.
7. Faith Formed by Love: Scholasticism.
8. Faith Active in Love: Reformation.
9. Love as Service: Pietism and the Diaconal Movements.
10. Love in the Modern World.
Conclusion: Concluding Unscientific Postscript.
Bibliography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.