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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... object and transformative telos. In contrast, agape is God-centered, emerging as a plenitudinous overflow or sacrificial gift that descends on humans and renders them both worthy of love and capable of loving others selflessly. If the ...
... object (he will grow up to be ''one of us'') virtually precludes him being represented in everyday Athenian thought as a mutually desiring subject, precisely because his desire would be then the ''unmanly'' one to be possessed and ...
... object; (2) one lacks what one desires; and (3) desire can be anticipatory. Socrates introduces the third point to preclude Agathon from arguing that a healthy man may wish for health. Hence, when Socrates asserts that the healthy man ...
... object of pleasure, or more precisely, on that object insofar as he would have to become in turn the master in the pleasure that was enjoyed with others and in the power that was exercised over oneself. It was here, at this ...
... object lesson in misplaced desire. The Dionysian speech confirms negatively Diotima's teaching about the need to transcend the bodies. Alcibiades could not transcend—and look what happened. On this reading (which is, curiously, both ...
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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 |