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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... masculinity. Males/men and females/women occupied the poles of that natural continuum, which admitted multiple genders and allowed for endless (and endlessly troubling) mutations of gender. Thus Paul's earliest readers would have ...
... masculine or feminine style at variance with what was deemed natural or appropriate to their anatomical sex.''26 ... masculine, and ranked actual bodies hierarchically as more or less perfect versions of the ideal masculine body.28 ''In ...
... masculine or female/feminine (where ''normal'' males and females are heterosexual).31 Violations of these norms are deemed unnatural. So doctors have tended to define genetic sex dualistically, as XX or XY, and to label violations of ...
... masculinity through idolatry. But he also deployed it, contrary to nature, to identify Christ as the recreated original androgyne, into whose body believers were materially knit in baptism with a power so transforming that it regendered ...
... masculine and actual bodies (manly, womanly, and other) were more or less perfectly masculine. As he describes, the reason ancients treated bodies not as ontologically stable and distinct sexes but as manifestations of relative degrees ...
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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 |