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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... Plato's Symposium has historically constituted a fertile matrix for dialogue and debate about physical and sublimated eros, as well as about the relation of Platonic eroticism to Christian love. By distancing Christian thought from ...
... Plato's symposium on love, performing contesting readings of an ancient text that itself already encompasses a multiplicity of voices. Here Daniel Boyarin directly engages Nygren's work, exposing a slippage in his interpretation of the ...
... Plato's text a concept of eros that is not simply identified with lack or death but encompasses also the agapic emphasis on resourcefulness or plenitude, in an inherently relational construal of divine-human desire in which eros itself ...
... Plato's Symposium, with which we begin, has constituted a privileged site for the development of philosophical theories and practices of eros, the biblical Song of Songs, which is the focus of the final part 5, has allowed for a poetic ...
... Plato's definitive views on love. Thus, in referring to ''heavenly Eros'' as that ''of which Plato and his followers speak,'' Nygren erases any difference between the Pausanian ideology of eros and that of Diotima/Socra- tes—the latter ...
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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