Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of DisciplineVirginia Burrus, Catherine Keller Fordham Univ Press, 25 aug 2009 - 408 pagina's 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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... Christ, a knight errant in love, and a female Soul seeking erotic union with a feminized divinity. Other essays in this section raise the question of whether the focus on the sexed or the sexual is too exclusive for an eroticism ...
... Christ—ever incarnating, but also ever withdrawing seductively, eluding even the grasp of words that must (according to the logic of a ''negative'' theology) be unsaid as soon as they are said. If theology gestures toward a God-who-is ...
... Christ and the church''); as the mediaeval saint might speak of the ''fruitio Dei''; as Dante saw all things contained in his love of Beatrice, so Plato would have us absorb all other loves and desires in the love of knowledge. Here is ...
... Christ (Romans 1:1), whose words seal Augustine's turn when, remembering the story of Antony, he does pick up and read: ''Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and have no care for flesh in its cravings'' (Romans 13:13, as in 8.12.29). The words ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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 |
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