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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... medieval writers forge ''syntheses'' of agape and eros in which eros almost inevitably sweeps agape up into its all-too-powerful currents, argues Nygren. This is nowhere more evident than in those In fact, theologians whose works betray ...
... medieval Christianity's thoroughgoing lapse into a synthetic, and thus counterfeit, theology of love. If, with Luther, ''the specifically Christian idea of love breaks through again and shatters the artfully contrived synthesis,''5 the ...
... medieval as well as contemporary Christians. As resonances between premodern and postmodern texts and practices are explored, questions are implicitly raised about the transhistorical and transcultural analysis of eroticism or sexuality ...
... medieval mystics Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch, and Marguerite Porete, who represent themselves, respectively, as a bride of Christ, a knight errant in love, and a female Soul seeking erotic union with a feminized divinity. Other ...
... medieval Christian mystics, even as we are also directed forward toward Elliot Wolfson's treatment in part 5 of the erotic suffering that attends exegetical practice in the understanding of medieval kabbalists. The intense yearning for ...
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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 |