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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... feminine, and the cosmological in her theological revisiting of the debate of Luce Irigaray with Emmanuel Levinas, as she reaches for a fresh conceptualization of the transcendence encountered in the (divine) Other in which eros is no ...
... feminine' by associating it with the female person of Diotima through her extended use of gender-specific language, then to disembody it once again, to turn 'pregnancy' into a mere image of (male) spiritual labor, just as Socrates's ...
... feminine style at variance with what was deemed natural or appropriate to their anatomical sex.''26 Only with Chaddock's invention of homosexuality did sexuality begin to take skin as a concept independent of gender identity. Sexual ...
... feminine (where ''normal'' males and females are heterosexual).31 Violations of these norms are deemed unnatural. So doctors have tended to define genetic sex dualistically, as XX or XY, and to label violations of the genetic dualism ...
... femininity of the actor's actions, irrespective of the sex of their sex-objects.52 Greek and Roman citizen-men were defined as active, masculine penetrators, and their sex objects (women, slaves, youths) as the passive/feminine/pene ...
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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 |