Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of DisciplineVirginia Burrus, Catherine Keller Fordham Univ Press, 25/08/2009 - 408 من الصفحات What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfigure doctrinal tropes? Avoiding the well-worn path of sexual moralizing while also departing decisively from Anders Nygren’s influential insistence that Christian agape must have nothing to do with worldly eros, this book explores what is still largely uncharted territory in the realm of theological erotics. The ascetic, the mystical, the seductive, the ecstatic—these are the places where the divine and the erotic may be seen to converge and love and desire to commingle. |
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... argues Nygren, the concept of agape precludes the notion that humans can love God in the same way that God loves humans. ''In relation to God, man is never spontaneous; he is not an independent centre of activity. His giving of himself ...
... argues Boyarin, falsely conflates the concept of a ''heavenly eros'' continuous with physical sexuality, as described in Pausanius's speech, with the more strictly asceticized eroticism attributed to the prophetess Diotima and ...
... argues Corrington, effects a radical ''liquification'' of the conventional ''architectural'' distinctions drawn between ascending desire and descending love. Catherine Keller, in turn, surfaces the productively disruptive potentiality ...
... argues, 202b–203e). The banquet being retold enacts the city Dionysia. It falls on the day after Agathon and the chorus have sacrificed in thanksgiving for his victory in the festival competition (173a). Because there was so much ...
... argues similarly that the created order objectively and uniquely supports heterosexual complementarity: ''Genesis 2:18–24 describes woman and man as created for one another and concludes with a summary moral: 'Therefore a man leaves his ...
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PART III SACRED SUFFERING SUBLIME SEDUCTION | 167 |
PART IV COSMOS EROS CREATIVITY | 219 |
PART V REREADING THE SONG OF SONGS | 289 |
A Theology of Eros After Transfiguring Passion | 366 |
Notes | 375 |
Contributors | 465 |