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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... historical, biblical, and philosphical hermeneutics, practices of social justice, and experiments in theopoetics. STEERING COMMITTEE: Catherine Keller, Director Virginia Burrus Stephen Moore This page intentionally left blank.
... biblical or postbiblical, convey this predicament of subjectivity while also opening up possibilities for an erotic transformation of submission that limits omnipotence, whether human or divine. Behind the crucifixion of Christ looms ...
... biblical narratives of new creation a source for envisioning divine and human creativity as an erotic overflow arising from a ''passion for transformation,'' a position that explicitly resists current theoretical tendencies—e.g., that ...
... biblical truths are not self-evident renderings of scriptural treatments of sexual union. (Biblical authors applauded everything from procreative sex to trysts-in-the-grass, multiple wives, concubinage, intimate male friendships, and ...
... biblical scholar Robin Scroggs's argument that Romans 1:26–27 is not an ''abstract comment about the ordering of male and female in creation,'' but a stereotyped historical censure of Greek pederasty. ''There was no other form of male ...
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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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