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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... less ascetic and less didactic on Jordan's reading than on Boyarin's, it both is and is not thereby less continuous with the erotic theories and practices of the Christians of a later antiquity: Jordan closes with a consideration of ...
... less familiar to most readers than Paul, Derek Krueger uncovers in the writings of the Byzantine monk Symeon the New Theologian evidence of a startlingly rich homoerotic imaginary that foregrounds the male monastic body as the site of ...
... less beautiful but all the more truthful for that, but then, quite unexpectedly, when given permission, what Socrates turns to is not encomium at all, but rather a dialectical interrogation of an Agathon turned virtual Protagoras. For ...
... less philosophical, the lovers of time ̄ (honor) even at their most honorable, engage in sex sparingly (256a–d). Lest one imagine, moreover, that this is not being presented there as Socrates's ''true'' view, his behavior with ...
... less than the universal opinion of Christendom, has stigmatized as unnatural.''1 Even the Platonic Socrates must be reproved so far as he ''does not appear to regard the greatest evil of Greek life as a matter of abhorrence, but as a ...
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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