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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... narratives of new creation a source for envisioning divine and human creativity as an erotic overflow arising from a ''passion for transformation,'' a position that explicitly resists current theoretical tendencies—e.g., that of Rene ́ ...
... narrative through an irruption of lyricism that evades linear temporality by performing a rhythmic sensuality that seduces our participation and thereby promises transformation at the most intimate level of embodied passions. Richard ...
... narrative, and prosecution ends with a charge of erotic reversal—and a pointed warning to Agathon. Socrates pursues as if he were a suitor, an eraste ̄s, but in fact he knows himself the pais, the desired boy (222d). Socrates reverses ...
... narrative in Confessions 8 with Alcibiades's speech. Certainly Augustine constructs the scene we call too simply his ''conversion'' as a competition (or synkrisis) of seductions. ''Old friends,'' ''trifles of trifles,'' ''vanities of ...
... narration, Augustine's reading of Paul mirrors the courtier's reading of the story about Antony. But Augustine's reading is prepared by the vision of Continence, an eminently rhetorical and philosophical vision. It is characteristic of ...
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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 |