Prophets of Love - Matthew R. Anderson

Prophets of Love

The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul
Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2023
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-1864-3 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Reimagining Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul as spiritual siblings, Prophets of Love offers an introduction to some of the latest scholarship on Paul, combatting centuries of Christian anti-Judaism, and sheds new light on the biblical worldviews and language underlying every line of Cohen’s poetry.
Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul might be imagined as brothers with wildly different characters but a strong family resemblance. Paul, the elder sibling, was awkward, abrasive, and zealous. Leonard, the successful younger brother, was a smooth-talking romantic, prone to addiction and depression. Paul died a martyr, not knowing his words would have any effect on the world. Leonard could see his canonization within his lifetime. Yet each became a prophet in his own time, and a poet for the ages.

In Prophets of Love Matthew Anderson traces surprising connections between two Jewish thinkers separated by millennia. He explores Leonard's and Paul’s mysticism, their Judaism, their fascination with Jesus, their countercultural perspectives on sex, their ideas about love, and how they each embodied being men. Anderson considers their ambiguous relationships with women, on whom they depended and from whom they often profited, as well as how their legacies continue to evolve and be re-interpreted. This book emphasizes that Paul was first and foremost a Jew, and never rejected his Judaism. At the same time, it sheds new light on the biblical worldviews and language underlying and inspiring every line of Cohen’s poetry.

Prophets of Love alters our views of both Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul, re-introducing us to two poetic prophets of divine and human love.

Matthew R. Anderson teaches biblical studies at Concordia University and St Francis Xavier University.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Advancing Studies in Religion
Verlagsort Montreal
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
ISBN-10 0-2280-1864-1 / 0228018641
ISBN-13 978-0-2280-1864-3 / 9780228018643
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