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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... God loves humans. ''In relation to God, man is never spontaneous; he is not an independent centre of activity. His giving of himself to God is never more than a response. At its best and highest, it is but a reflex of God's love, by ...
... God. Or rather: eros is the power or process of divine self-othering through which creation is ever emerging—that which at once differentiates and joins, orders and disrupts. A God in and of between-spaces, then, and also a God always ...
... God presupposes, indeed it would seem to require, God's absence or, what in contemporary thought amounts to the same thing, God's death. Second, and as a consequence of the first, contemporary lack-based theories of desire or erotic ...
... god and mortal'' (202d). Like all great divinities, Eros mediates the difference and the distance between the gods and mortals. This mediation is, according to Diotima's description, essentially hermeneutic: ''Interpreting and conveying ...
... God virtually, if not completely, impossible. In the wake of the final death and absence of God, the desire for God can only express itself in the creation of new gods, gods created in our own image. Herein, it seems, lies the ultimate ...
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63 | |
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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