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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... words and thoughts have left traces on the pages of this book—Cheryl Anderson, Chris Boesel, Danna Nolan Fewell, John Hoffmeyer, Otto Maduro, Dale Martin, Anna Mercedes, Stephen Moore, Peter Savastano, Terry Todd, and Richard Whaite ...
... words, it takes discipline (in multiple senses) to its limits in a stretch toward transcendence. But what kind of transcendence is imagined or hoped for? The essays gathered here offer a variety of answers to this question. To reach ...
... words that must (according to the logic of a ''negative'' theology) be unsaid as soon as they are said. If theology gestures toward a God-who-is-eros, that gesture itself partakes of the erotic. Like prayer—or perhaps as prayer ...
... words and phrases? Anyway, I was worried that I'd not be able to say anything that came close to them in beauty, and so I would almost have run away and escaped, if there had been a place to go. And, you see, the speech reminded me of ...
... words and phrasing will take care of themselves.'' This is (or at any rate becomes) a standard diatribe against rhetoric, claiming that it cares more for the form than for the substance, if it cares for the substance at all. It seems at ...
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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 |