Her character sparks no long-term feelings of passion, desire, or even loss from Gawain. ... Arthurian chivalry is founded upon Christian ideology and this tale is no exception. ... He is told by his host to "lie in your bed, sir, taking your ease until late in the day.... This is no coincidence. Piotr Sadowski examines this request made by Lord Bertilak and states that "Gawain is from the very start put in a difficult position, for the state of forced ease and relaxation imposed by Sir Bertilak on his guest is very favorable to the kind of sin that Gawain is subsequently led to by t...

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ion, and hold it to be a usable notion for Christians; but hawing defended elsewhere a physicalist conception of survival of death through resurrection, I will discuss it no further here. 1Another option is to collapse talk of resurrection into talk of the immortality of the soul. ... Thus Pseudo-Justin Martyr says: "Is the soul by itself man No; but the soul of man. Would the body be called man No, but it is called the body of man. ... (How one can simultaneously b e both « at home with the Lord " and "in an incomplete state" is a tension that perhaps remains in the theory.)Finally, the...

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