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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... Jewish concept of law. ''There cannot actually be any doubt,'' he writes, ''that Eros and Agape belong originally to two entirely separate spiritual worlds, between which no direct communication is possible.''1 Observing that Platonic ...
... Jewish tradition, the erotic is frequently attended by the suffering of pain or violent coercion, an interest that unites the essays in part 3 while also linking them with the prior essays by AlthausReid and Hollywood in particular. At ...
... Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions an eschatologically charged eroticism that subverts the Nygrenesque binary of agape and eros, descending and ascending desire, while also inviting engagement with a wide range of contemporary ...
... Jews and Christians.65 However, much more important in my view is the essential positing of a spiritual love that is not only not physical but in important ways directly opposed to the physical. The bottom line of the Symposium is that ...
... Jews and Christians) treated intercourse not as a function of sexual orientation but as a gendered enactment of sociopolitical status understood in terms of the masculinity or femininity of the actor's actions, irrespective of the sex ...
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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 |