 | Peter Balakian - 1999 - 192 páginas
...Zaehner's relation of sex to the sacred applies to Roethke, for the sexual act, Zaehner asserts, is "the one act of which man is capable that makes him like God both in the intensity of his union with his partner and in the fact that by this union he is a co-creator... | |
 | Mary Anne McPherson Oliver - 1994 - 180 páginas
...to sex union, soul female, God male. Blasphemy not in comparison of sex and ecstasy but in degrading the one act of which man is capable that makes him like God, both in intensity of union with partner and in the fact that by this union he is a cocreator with God.... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 páginas
...complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.' CS Lewis, Mere Christianity ( 1 952) 15 To drive home the close parallel between the sexual...act of which man is capable that makes him like God both in the intensity of his union with his partner and in the fact that by this union he is a co-creator... | |
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To drive home the close parallel between the sexual act and the mystical union with God may seem blasphemous today. Yet the blasphemy is not in the comparison, but in the degrading of the one act of which man is capable that makes him like God both in... 