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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Regina Psaki; Charles Hindley |
ISBN: | 1586841599 9781586841591 |
OCLC Number: | 49758253 |
Description: | ii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction / Pier Cesare Bori -- The anxiety of Eden / Stefano Levi Della Torre -- The mystical architecture of Eden in the Jewish tradition / Giulio Busi Eden -- The ambiguity of Eden and the enigma of Adam / Gaetano Lettieri -- Adam in Eden : the difficult discernment of the perfect life / Paolo Bettiolo -- Adam's paradise in the Koran and in the Muslim exegetical tradition / Ida Zilio Grandi -- Paradise and nature in Johannes Scotus Erigena / Marta Cristiani -- The sexual body in Dante and the medieval context / F. Regina Psaki -- Therapy in the garden : the purgatorial Eden of Boccaccio's Decameron / Massimo Riva -- State of innocence and private property in the polemic on evangelical poverty at the beginning of the fourteenth century / Gian Luca Potestà -- The three gardens in the paradisal scene of Pico della Mirandola's De hominis dignitate / Pier Cesare Bori -- Studium simplicitatis : the letter of grace in Luther's commentary on Genesis 1-3 / Stefano Leoni -- A portrait of the exegete as a geographer, the map of paradise as a hermeneutic instrument in Calvin and his contemporaries / Max Engammare -- The vision of paradise in the Journal of George Fox / Pier Cesare Bori -- Love in paradise : Milton's pattern / Daniela Bianchi -- Adamites old and new in seventeenth-century French morality / Lisa Ginzburg -- 'Geographia sacra' : the placing of paradise in late seventeenth-century French theology / Franco Motta -- Paradise in the final scene of Faust II / Alberto Destro -- The paradise of names : Benjamin's interpretation of Genesis 1-3 (1916) / Gianfranco Bonola -- Paradise and the dialogical relation : Genesis 1-2 in the commentary of Karl Barth and of some of his interlocutors / Alberto Gallas. |
Series Title: | International studies in formative Christianity and Judaism. |
Responsibility: | editor, F. Regina Psaki ; literary editor, Charles Hindley. |
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