Love: A Brief History Through Western ChristianityISBN: 978-0-631-23599-6
Paperback
208 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.
1. The Language of Love.
2. Biblical Views of Love.
3. A World Without Love? The Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity.
4. Caritas: The Augustinian Synthesis of Biblical Agape and Hellenistic 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