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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... nature, as uncovered by Robert Corrington's reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose thought, argues Corrington, effects a radical ''liquification'' of the conventional ''architectural'' distinctions drawn between ascending desire and ...
... nature and remained with philosophy. Or a great mind born in a small city, who thinks the political affairs of his city beneath him, and has no time for them. ... Our friend Theages has a bridle which is quite good at keeping people in ...
... nature of this new brand of alien [the philosopher]? ... One of the most prominent aspects of Plato's definition of the philosopher is the opposition he forges between the philosophic 'outsider' and the various types of people who made ...
... nature of desire itself.1 Lack is the necessary condition of desire: One can only desire what one lacks, for to possess what one desires would bring about the end of desire. There is no question that at this stage in the Symposium ...
... nature desires to beget'' (206c). Both body and soul are pregnant, and it is this fecundity that conditions eros prior to procreation. It is out of their fullness that body and soul desire the beautiful, and because it is in the ...
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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 |