The Odyssey of Love
eBook - ePub

The Odyssey of Love

A Christian Guide to the Great Books

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Odyssey of Love

A Christian Guide to the Great Books

About this book

Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the soul. In reading we journey to find ourselves and to save ourselves. The ultimate journey is reading the Great Books. In the Great Books we find the struggle of the human soul, its aspirations, desires, and failures. Through reading, we find faces and souls familiar to us even if they lived a thousand years ago. The unread life is not worth living, and in reading we may well discover what life is truly about and prepare ourselves for the pilgrimage of life.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Reading Homer from Here to Eternity
  6. Chapter 2: Homer’s Epic of the Family
  7. Chapter 3: Aeschylus and the Struggle for Justice
  8. Chapter 4: Sophocles and the Necessity of Family
  9. Chapter 5: Yearning for Eden
  10. Chapter 6: Metamorphosis by Love
  11. Chapter 7: The Shield of Aeneas
  12. Chapter 8: From Diotima to Christ
  13. Chapter 9: The Song of Roland
  14. Chapter 10: The Pilgrimage of Love
  15. Chapter 11: Shakespeare and the Tragedy of Politics
  16. Chapter 12: Shakespeare on Love and War
  17. Chapter 13: The Quality of Mercy
  18. Chapter 14: Milton’s Erotic Cosmos
  19. Chapter 15: The Fall and Degeneration of Man in Gulliver’s Travels
  20. Chapter 16: In the Ruins of Babylon
  21. Chapter 17: A Tale of Two Resurrections
  22. Chapter 18: Pip’s Confessions
  23. Chapter 19: Memory, Love, and Eternity in Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”
  24. Chapter 20: An Annunciation on the Battlefield
  25. Chapter 21: Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
  26. Afterword
  27. Bibliography