Episode 35, Sacred and Profane Love: Morten Hoi Jensen on Jens Peter Jacobsen

Sacred and Profane Love

Jun 1, 2021Religion & Spirituality

In this episode, literary critic Morten Høi Jensen and I discuss the Danish novelist and poet, Jens Peter Jacobsen, and his beautiful novel, Niels Lyhne. Niels is a man searching for love and for God, but who finds that...

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