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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... heterosexual and homosexual, twosexed and intersexed, normative and queer—through engagement with the erotic pieties of ancient and medieval as well as contemporary Christians. As resonances between premodern and postmodern texts and ...
... heterosexual eros is treated on the same basis as homosexual copulation, a pursuit of bodily pleasure which leads no further ... and in Symposium it is sub-rational, an expression of the eros that works in animals.''6 Dover thus ...
... heterosexual couple (since women will never grow up to be men, they are not dishonored—any more than they are already—by their love of being penetrated or love and desire for the one who penetrates them). While I accept that the ...
... heterosexual couple (Pericles and Aspasia) to the purely spiritual and intellectual one (Socrates and Diotima) than Halperin has articulated, namely a strong displacement of procreation itself. Where Halperin's argument seems to assume ...
... heterosexual, and Romans 1 to prove homosexual sex contrary to nature. But such ideas cited as biblical truths are ... heterosexuality is destabilized at its scriptural foundation in the Pauline corpus. Neither Paul nor his early readers ...
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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 |