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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Main Author: Osborne, Catherine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1994, 1994
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