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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... male monastic body as the site of erotic transformation or deification; his essay glances back toward Jordon's as he detects possible echoes in Symeon's work of the teasingly cloaked erotic exchange between Alcibiades and Socrates with ...
... male relationality that is deemed superior to but still comparable with marital heteroeroticism. In contrast, Platonic eros sets itself against both pederasty and marriage in resistance to the conventions of the ancient city (and ...
... 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 resistance of the ascetic to the everyday; for ...
... (male) spiritual labor, just as Socrates's male voice at once embodies and disembodies Diotima's female presence.''21 The precise choice of woman, or better put, the remarkably absent woman, the absent real woman, Aspasia, the woman who ...
... male and one female, as Diotima herself makes quite beautifully clear (206c–e), there is more, then, going on in the ... male-male love to that of male and female, and therefore Diotima must be a woman, I would read it almost in opposite ...
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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