Agape and Bhakti with Bataille and Mark at Loyola and St. Francis

by David L Goicoechea

Overview

David L. Goicoechea presents his fourth volume in a series on agape. The book focuses on the complementarity of agape (Christian love) and bhakti (Hindu love). First, he shows how the Jesuit Spirituality at Loyola in Chicago and the Franciscan Spirituality at St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, helped him to appreciate mystical love. Secondly, he shows how agape with all nine of its characteristics is central to the Gospel of Mark. Then, especially with the help of the work of Dr. Raj Singh, he shows how bhakti developed throughout the history of India. Finally, Goicoechea shows how Georges Bataille, especially with the help of St. John of the Cross, looks deeply into the Inner Experience of the Mystical Ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532600623
Publisher:	Pickwick Publications
Publication date:	10/10/2016
Series:	Postmodern Ethics , #9
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

David L. Goicoechea is a professor emeritus at Brock University. He has published widely in the areas of philosophy of love, existentialism, philosophy of religion, postmodernism, and the history of philosophy.

Table of Contents

List of Images viii

Acknowledgments ix

Detailed Line of the Argument xi

Introduction 1

Part 1 The Love of Wisdom

In Jesuit Spirituality 20

In Mark's Gospel 56

In The Gita's Bhakti 83

In Bataille's Inner Experience 111

Part 2 The Wisdom of Love

In Franciscan Spirituality 142

And Mark's Agapetos 174

And The Tamil Culture 201

And The Sacred's Secrets 228

Part 3 To The Things Themselves

In Phenomenology 258

And Marks Reconciliation 285

And Beyond The Caste System 312

Which Science Cannot Know 339

Bibliography 367

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"A work of exquisite poetic exploration of a subject we all wish to master, David's unique method of meditating on love parallels his personal story with Mark's Gospel, with Bataille's writings and even the Bhagavad Gita."
—Sally Jardine, former professor of English, Kansas State University

"In this his fourth book, David Goicoechea again tells the truth as he sees it and lives it. This book is a record of the intensity that marks his unique syncretistic Christianity. This book distills the Gospels, adds to this strains of Hinduism and a Bataillean-Kierkegaardean-Nietzschean quest for grace and joy, all of which results in a very potent cocktail."
—R. Dalvi, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Brock University

Editorial Reviews

"A work of exquisite poetic exploration of a subject we all wish to master, David's unique method of meditating on love parallels his personal story with Mark's Gospel, with Bataille's writings and even the Bhagavad Gita."
—Sally Jardine, former professor of English, Kansas State University

"In this his fourth book, David Goicoechea again tells the truth as he sees it and lives it. This book is a record of the intensity that marks his unique syncretistic Christianity. This book distills the Gospels, adds to this strains of Hinduism and a Bataillean-Kierkegaardean-Nietzschean quest for grace and joy, all of which results in a very potent cocktail."
—R. Dalvi, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Brock University

From the Publisher