Across the bridge of sighs: reading a Christian theology of melancholy

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Across the bridge of sighs: reading a Christian theology of melancholy

In this thesis, I will proceed by the examination of exemplary texts in the western Christian understanding of, and engagement with, the concept of chronically melancholic and destructively sorrowful states. I will begin with influential texts from the ancient west and near east, such as The Book of...

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Main Author:	Wilson, L.C.
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Theology History of Ideas Melancholy Monasticism Dante Kierkegaard
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41910/

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