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Part One, “Historical Retrospect on the Bible and Psychology,” documents the development of psychological biblical criticism as an emerging discipline within biblical studies since the 1960's. Part Two, “An Agenda for the Bible and Psychology,” advances a definition of the goal of psychological biblical criticism, enumerating ten areas ...
- Wayne G. Rollins
- 1997
The paper argues that the very broad meaning of verbs like love in English, aimer in French, lieben in German, etc. reflects a shared conceptual heritage of many European languages, with its...
- Anna Wierzbicka
Jun 23, 2017 · The Greek philosopher Empedocles (d. 435 BCE) held that there are four primordial elements: air, earth, fire, and water. These elements are driven together and apart by the opposed cosmic...
Part One, "Historical Retrospect on the Bible and Psychology," documents the development of psychological biblical criticism as an emerging discipline within biblical studies since the 1960"s. Part Two, "An Agenda for the Bible and Psychology," advances a definition of the goal of psychological biblical criti-
- Wayne G. Rollins
- 1997
For the first time in the Judeo-Christian tradition, love, insofar as courtly love can count as love, did not ultimately aim at, or depend upon, God, and the Church duly declared it a heresy.
Beset by and forged out of a myriad illusions, associations and memories, love is revealed as a remorseless dialectic of anxiety and disappointment, hope and tedium, delight and dread – a dialectic resolved into some sort of stable attachment only by the final loss of the loved one, if at all.
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Jan 1, 2009 · During the last third of the twentieth century a discipline that applies psychological and psychoanalytic insight to the study of the Bible, has resurfaced within biblical studies. In his book ...
