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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... language, just as she would have been able to teach only the lower erotics that pursue pleasure, procreation, and political power, while Diotima can teach true erotics, because her sexuality is entirely out of all of these realms, and ...
... language's beauty, and the beauty of the community of ordinary human beings sharing views and reaching conclusions and decisions, as well as sharing bodily fluids and sometimes making babies,67 all belong to the realm of the false ...
... language Diotima uses to describe her ladder is like Socrates's language for telling myths in Phaedo, the Republic, and Phaedrus. His myths are pedagogically important—both consoling and hortatory. They are not plain doctrine. Neither ...
... language of desire: ''Act, Lord, do it, excite us and call us back, inflame and ravish us, be fragrant, grow sweet: that we may love, that we may run'' (8.4.9). And the Lord does it: ''You turned me to you, so that I would not seek a ...
... most insatiable desire of God, according to the history and the event of its manifestation or the secret of its nonmanifestation.''31 This is an apophasis that, despite its language of negation and rigorous attempts to avoid mario costa 51.
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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 |