Author: Saint Francis (de Sales)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
A Treatise on the Love of God
Author: Saint Francis (de Sales)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
Treatise on Love of God
Author: Miguel de UnamunoPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252031245
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A newly discovered treatise by a major European writer
Treatise on Mystical Love
Author: Ali b. Muhammad al-DaylamiPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 147446386X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The earliest major Islamic treatise on mystical love, this work reflects a moderate version of the ecstatic mysticism of the Sufi martyr al-Hallaj. Writing around 1000 C.E., the author summarizes the views of lexicographers, belletrists, philosophers, physicians, theologians, and mystics on love, providing much information that would otherwise have been lost. In setting forth his own opinions he relies heavily on erotic poetry with accompanying frame stories from the Umayyad and early Abbasid periods, Sufi biography, the lives of the prophets, and personal information.
Of the Love of God
Author: Saint Francis (de Sales)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Love of Books
Author: Richard de BuryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Art of Courtly Love
Author: Andreas (Capellanus.)Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231073059
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The social system of 'courtly love' soon spread after becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century. This book codifies life at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174 into "one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explain the secret of a civilization."
A Treatise on Stars
Author: Mei-Mei BerssenbruggePublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811229394
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau) Winner of the Bollingen Prize Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a “field of heaven…outside spacetime.” Long, lyrical lines map a geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence that exists in all places and sentient beings. These are poems of deep listening and patient waiting, open to the cosmic loom, the channeling of daily experience and conversation, gestalt and angels, dolphins and a star-visitor beneath a tree. Family, too, becomes a type of constellation, a thought “a form of organized light.” All of our sense are activated by Berssenbrugge’s radiant lines, giving us a poetry of keen perception grounded in the physical world, where “days fill with splendor, and earth offers its pristine beauty to an expanding present.”
In Praise of Love
Author: Alain BadiouPublisher: New Press/ORIM
ISBN: 1595588892
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud’s famous line “love needs reinventing,” In Praise of Love is the celebrated French intellectual’s passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This quest begins with the chance encounter, an event that forever changes two individuals, challenging them “to see the world from the point of view of two rather than one.” This, Badiou believes, is love’s most essential transforming power. Through thought-provoking dialogue edited from a conversation between Badiou and Truong, a vibrant cast of thinkers are invoked: Kierkegaard, Plato, de Beauvoir, Proust, and more, create a new narrative of love in the face of twenty-first-century modernity. Moving, zealous, and wise, Badiou’s “paean to the anticapitalist, antiessentialist, unifying power of love” urges us not to fear it but to see it as a magnificent undertaking that compels us to explore others and to move away from an obsession with ourselves (Publishers Weekly). “Finally, the cure for the pornographic, utilitarian exchange of favors to which love has been reduced in America. Alain Badiou is our philosopher of love.” —Simon Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless
A Treatise of Love. Written by Io. Rogers, Minister of Gods Word at Dedham in Essex
Author: John RogersA Treatise on Hell's Terror
Author: Christopher LovePublisher: Puritan Publications
ISBN: 1938721527
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This work is a treatise on one of the most hated doctrines in the Bible; a treatise on "hell." Love uses the text, “But rather fear Him which is able to destroy both body and soul in hell,” Matthew 10:28, as a foundation for all his queries and answers to this most dreadful subject. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), one the greatest preachers to ever live, kept a copy of Love’s works on hell in his library due to the graphic description and important nature of Love’s exposition. The weighty subject matter is presented in such a lively style and is so carefully applied that readers cannot help but be edified whether they are Christians or not. It is, without a doubt, one of the best works on hell ever written. This is not a scan or facsimile, has been updated in modern English for easy reading and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.