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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... Diotima and ultimately affirmed by Plato. This is a distinction overlooked by others as well, not least Michel Foucault. On Boyarin's reading, Platonic love as defined by Diotima draws close to Christian love as interpreted by the ...
... Diotima/Socra- tes—the latter of which I take to be Platonic love.2 Indeed, Nygren makes this conflation quite explicit: ''In the Symposium Plato feels no necessity to make Socrates or Diotima speak about it, but entrusts to Pausanias ...
... Diotima/ Socrates, advocates a philosophical flight not only from carnal sex but also from the indeterminacies of truth and power inherent to the politics of democracy. Nygren is, of course, not the only one to have collapsed this ...
... (Diotima, Philosophia) into the male-male erotic economy. Here, I suggest, we may find a genealogy for Christian sex: what Plato frames as the resistance of philosophy to rhetoric, late ancient Christians represent as the resistance of ...
... Diotima, Halperin does not reject so much as supplement the Diotima as Aspasia in priestess-drag account, allowing, rather, that the Diotima replaces Aspasia substitution may be true enough, but maintaining at the same time that it does ...
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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