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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... forces of Dionysus—as he stood in immobile contemplation outside Agathon's door or in the camp at Potidaea, as he showed invincible composure even during the rout at Delium (220c, 221b). Socrates seeks out hardships. He is never drunk ...
... force that seeks to acquire or consume whatever it lacks. According to Diotima's definition, rather, eros is eros of beautiful and good things. A lover is erotic, therefore, not by seeking and wishing to possess whatever it lacks ...
... force, what for Nietzsche is the underlying force of life itself: the will to power. Out of the ashes of death emerges an overflowing and ever-expanding energy, but an energy predicated on and conditioned by lack. The determinative role ...
... force. Whatever constructive and creative possibilities might exist for desire, such possibilities necessarily entail a form of violence. From out of the abundance of the will to power is expressed ''[t]he desire for destruction,''14 ...
... force of such texts is 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 ...
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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