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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... INTERCOURSE The Symposium stages these oppositions on various literary levels, with respect to both the form of the discourse and its content. The Symposium is not at all a dialogue, but, in fact, a staged series of encomia, of ...
... intercourse. Before Augustine sees Continence gesturing toward him in the garden, his anxiety to escape the shackles of sex, of desire for copulation (vinculum desiderii concubitus), is inflamed by a story of instant renunciation (8.6 ...
... intercourse. In mediating the distance between mortals and the gods, such that ''the All is bound up together with itself,'' eros does not dissolve the difference between heaven and earth, between the gods and humans, such that all ...
... intercourse with, the beautiful that body and soul can each give birth to—or have come into being—beautiful things. This, according to Diotima, ''is a divine thing, and pregnancy and procreation are an immortal element in the mortal ...
... intercourse with the beautiful. With respect to the body, erotic intercourse between beautiful bodies produces children, and with respect to the soul, erotic intercourse between beautiful souls ultimately produces virtue. In both cases ...
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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 |