A rhapsody of love and spirituality

Two vast antagonists : Longus and Plato

The lover's coach and the apple fallen from Plato's tree : Ovid and Aristotle

Eros and the Bible : romantic scriptures, ambiguous interpretations, and Gregory of Nyssa's platonic biblical allegories

Bad news for lovers : Saint John, Saint Chrysostom Jerome, and Saint Augustine

Knights and ladies versus the monks : chivalric romance and ascetic discipline

A crippled attempt to salvage marriage and a popular movement against it : Thomas Aquinas and The cloud of unknowing

The romancers strike back : Martin Luther, Sir Edmund Spenser, and the Puritans

Radical theologian of true love : Emanuel Swedenborg

The eternal feminine : Shelley and intellectual beauty

The death of God, the end of love : T.S. Eliot's Tthe waste land

Ancient echoes in modern halls : the recent erotic spirituality of Vatican II, David Matzko McCarthy, Karl Barth, and Eberhard Jungel

A heap of broken images? : erotic love and spirituality in the post-modern age