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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... spiritual, intellectual, and political. It seeks new openings for the emergence of desire, love, and pleasure, while also challenging common understandings of these terms. It engages risk at the point where the hope for salvation ...
... spiritual worlds, between which no direct communication is possible.''1 Observing that Platonic eros is always already a sublimation of what he names ''vulgar Eros,'' he insists that there ''is no way, not even that of sublimation ...
... spiritual, passive and active, ascending and descending, creaturely and divine love. The essays in this volume join the voices of other contemporary scholars in pursuing a theology of eros after Nygren, even as they also share Nygren's ...
... spiritual labor, just as Socrates's male voice at once embodies and disembodies Diotima's female presence.''21 The precise choice of woman, or better put, the remarkably absent woman, the absent real woman, Aspasia, the woman who wasn't ...
... spiritual in nature, outside the circulation (the traffic) of the sociality of the polis. She is explicitly speaking against, above all, Pausanias, that ultimate representative of the highest-mindedness of Athenian eros, the one who ...
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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 |