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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... Lacan (as in MacKendrick), but certainly to the rhetorical books Augustine taught for a living. Indeed, what had turned Augustine from the clanging of the ''cauldron of shameful loves'' (3.1.1) was the required reading of Cicero's (lost) ...
... Lacan, and Derrida. It is in Nietzsche that one finds the repositioning and privileging of lack and death in the economy of desire. Nietzsche's claim that God is dead announces the death or end of transcendence, religion, and ...
... as lack is rivaled only by that of Freud and Lacan. Psychoanalytic theories of desire tend to empty objects of desire of all concrete content; that is, to downplay if not ignore the material importance of such 48 toward a theology of eros.
... Lacan, there are no objects of desire—the object is of little importance—because there is no necessary relationship between a particular object and the aim or satisfaction of a particular desire. In ''Instincts [Triebe] and Their ...
... Lacan is impossible. Thus, for instance, the oral drive has as its source the mouth which desires (re)unification with the mother's (lost and lacking) breast. Frustrated in its aim, desire circles or circulates from lack to lack ...
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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 |