Love, Love, Love: Light Reflections on Love, LIfe and Death, And Other Essays

by Taliaferro, Charles C.

• ISBN13: 9781561012428
• ISBN10: 1561012424
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Three days before his death, my father, at 95 years old, held hands with me and repeated the word Love three times. The essays were written over five years. All are written with the aim of combining humor with seriousness. --from the author, Charles Taliaferro

Author Biography

Charles Taliaferro is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
An Introduction	p. xv
Divine Love in Ordinary Time
A Professor's Tale	p. 3
Jury Duty with James Bond	p. 6
Shipwrecks and Immortality	p. 10
Dr. Visitor	p. 13
Do Not Hug a Tree on a Job Interview Unless There Is a Very Good Reason for Doing So	p. 16
Drugs, a Bear, and an Owl: A Testimony	p. 19
I Want to Hold Your Hand!	p. 24
I Am So Sorry!	p. 27
The Rock of Gibraltar	p. 33
Hello Tiepolo	p. 37
The Knights of the Round Table in the American Colonies	p. 40
A Student's Tale	p. 45
Confessions of a Sleepwalker	p. 50
The Goblins and My Parents	p. 53
Are We in a Crisis Yet?	p. 57
Going Down? Several Problems with Hate	p. 61
Love from Afar	p. 65
Conversations with Paintings	p. 68
Lady Wisdom	p. 71
Stay Awake	p. 76
Still Standing?	p. 79
Divine Love in Politics and Culture
The Counsel of the Wise	p. 83
Moving Images	p. 86
Be Nice!	p. 93
But Deliver Us from Evil	p. 98
Prayer and Foreign Policy	p. 102
Dying on Campaign	p. 106
The Romance of Politics	p. 109
From Russia with Faith, Hope, and Love	p. 112
Heaven in China	p. 116
Racism and the Woods	p. 119
Now That Is an Interesting Machine Gun	p. 124
A Modest Defense of Magic	p. 128
Enemies Are at the Gate, but Friends Are at the Door!	p. 132
Shakespeare, Actually	p. 136
The Passion and the Happiness of the Christ	p. 140
Is the Detective Chief Inspector in Love Today?	p. 146
Going Up? The Lighter Side of Christian Mysticism	p. 150
A Very Large, Magical Victorian	p. 154
The Virtues of the Cloister	p. 161
Divine Love
It's Waterloo, Baby!	p. 167
It's the Siege of Stalingrad, Darling!	p. 170
Love. Love. Love	p. 174
Notes	p. 177
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