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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... Halperin has realized, has to do with the question of Diotima's sex. In a compelling discussion, Halperin has argued that Diotima is a woman because she represents or substitutes for a ''real'' woman, Aspasia (the much cherished lover ...
... Halperin's account of Diotima as a ''cover'' for Aspasia and his perhaps startling conclusion that she is a prophetess because she is a woman (and not the other way around), I think that this conclusion could helpfully be restated more ...
... Halperin's delightful translation of Mantinea) and thus a source of authority but also, as such, she is totally out of the corporal politico-erotic economy of the city. Her Peloponnesian origin is not beside the point. This notion of ...
... Halperin's second major point as to the femaleness of Diotima, namely that since Plato has supplanted the Athenian ''male'' model of eros as acquisition of the beautiful with a ''female'' one of procreation of the beautiful, it is ...
... Halperin has already well articulated how radically Plato's view of eros departs from the Athenian norm, represented at its best in Pausanias's speech: ''Because ero ̄s, on the Platonic view ... aims at procreation, not at possession ...
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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 |