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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... Paul as the poster child of an agapically asexual theology while also explicitly challenging more contemporary invocations of Paul that support the oppressive politics of heterosexism. Considering a figure far less familiar to most ...
... Paul (8.1.1, carrying forward 7.21.27). Augustine seems the happy opposite to Alcibiades. He has moved up the ladder of love to a vision of the supreme Light. The Light has convicted him as it consoled him, and so he seeks to become ...
... Paul, Alypius, who had been ''fixed'' beside him, discovers a few words further on enough justification for his own commitment to a celibate Christianity (8.11–12). In this narration, Augustine's reading of Paul mirrors the courtier's ...
... Paul is a blunter or more simple-minded Alcibiades. Perhaps he is—and to his credit. Alcibiades acknowledged that he spoke in ''images'' about images of the (Dionysian?) divine in Socrates. He meant to barter himself for what Socrates ...
... Paul nor his early readers thought that humans naturally came in two biological sexes; like other ancients, they believed in a hierarchical continuum of relative masculinity. Males/men and females/women occupied the poles of that ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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