Eros unveiled Plato and the god of love
On the basis of a new and sympathetic reading of Plato, Catherine Osborne shows that the long-standing distrust of eros, rather than agape, as a model for the believer's relation to God in Christian thought derives from a misunderstanding of ancient thought on love
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Clarendon
1994, 1994
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | On the basis of a new and sympathetic reading of Plato, Catherine Osborne shows that the long-standing distrust of eros, rather than agape, as a model for the believer's relation to God in Christian thought derives from a misunderstanding of ancient thought on love |
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| Physical Description: | x, 246 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780191683336 0191683337 |