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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... imagine a Plato who sees having sex with two beautiful bodies a higher practice than having sex with one and having sex with all beautiful bodies an even higher rung than that.55 It's a nice fantasy, but not, I think, Plato's.56 We see ...
... imagine, moreover, that this is not being presented there as Socrates's ''true'' view, his behavior with Alcibiades as reported in the Symposium bears out this interpretation. Finally, in the passage on love in the Laws, we find the ...
... imagine that Socrates would tell the story of that night on the couch? A sweaty Alcibiades squirming next to his icy indifference? Elsewhere, Socrates gives his reflection of his heroism at Potidaea. On the very day he got back from the ...
... imagine a long night of restrained, but fully mutual desire? Or would Socrates say that it was finally Alcibiades who flagged when he realized that it wasn't Socrates's body he wanted? When he recognized that a law like that against ...
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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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