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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... lacks all the essential marks of Agape.'' Then is it eros? No, it is faith, insists Nygren, ''a love of which the keynote is receptivity.''3 Curiously, most Christians have failed to observe the distinctions that are so clear to Nygren ...
... his argument implies that embodied sexuality (''vulgar Eros'') is the originary site of a subsequently sublimated desire (''heavenly Eros'') arising from a lack that is filled, eradicated, or simply superseded introduction xv.
... lack-based theories of desire—arguments that are, of course, resonant (though not simply conflatable) with Nygren's opposition of agape to eros. In dialogue with philosophical theologian Jean-Luc Marion, Costa discovers in Plato's text ...
... 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 arrives, and is returned, as a gift. Costa's essay should also be ...
... lacks what one desires; and (3) desire can be anticipatory. Socrates introduces the third point to preclude Agathon from arguing that a healthy man may wish for health. Hence, when Socrates asserts that the healthy man desires health ...
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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