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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... dialogue, any more than its idealizing reading of heterosex (or homosex) as mutual and egalitarian. Since, of course, procreation can be realized sexually, if one partner is male and one female, as Diotima herself makes quite ...
Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline Virginia Burrus, Catherine Keller. of the dialogues, including the ones that most explicitly foreground it, such as the Gorgias. The first speech by Phaedrus, at any rate, can be ...
... dialogue.''38 Jowett provides a much more cogent and revealing reading when he refers to ''the ruling passion of Socrates for dialectics.'' Socrates, ''who will argue with Agathon instead of making a speech, and will only speak at all ...
... dialogue with Socrates, however, he is forced to agree to three major premises: (1) desire always has an object; (2) one lacks what one desires; and (3) desire can be anticipatory. Socrates introduces the third point to preclude Agathon ...
... dialogue with its absolute and coercive ''Truth,'' over against the shady and shaky claims of rhetoric or debate, with its very precarious grasp on the same.45 Socrates's treatment of Agathon (meaning good, beautiful) is meant as an ...
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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 |