Beschreibung:
Arguing that there is a close relationship between aspects of the literature of Western spirituality and evolving ideas of the person, this book charts the interaction between literature and theology in producing certain historically-conditioned interpretations of what it means to be a person.
Introduction - the argument in outline; Jesus the personal God; Origen of Alexandria - face to face with the beloved; Julian of Norwich - God's gladdest countenance; Erasmus - the masks of folly and the face of God; William Law - imagination and the transfiguring of nature; Newman's "Apologia" - the self in a faceless world.