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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... female medieval mystics Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch, and Marguerite Porete, who represent themselves, respectively, as a bride of Christ, a knight errant in love, and a female Soul seeking erotic union with a feminized divinity ...
... female figures (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 ...
... female teachers, Aspasia and Diotima. In the Menexenus, in a context in which Socrates is openly mocking rhetoric and speechmaking, he cites Aspasia as his teacher in rhetorics. In the Symposium, when Socrates wishes to laud dialogue ...
... female body and, first to reembody it as 'feminine' by associating it with the female person of Diotima through her extended use of gender-specific language, then to disembody it once again, to turn 'pregnancy' into a mere image of ...
... female. The substitution of the Mantinean mantic for the Athenian partner, lover, politician, mother (not demimondaine), was a very marked one indeed. If Aspasia is the female version of Pericles, Diotima makes the perfect female ...
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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