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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... metaphor and philosophical thinking; it takes flesh in its symbolic, communal, and ethical practices. With the gift of this history and in the spirit of its unrealized potential, the Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia intensify ...
... metaphors, to shatter its repressive defenses. Is the posited distinction between agape and eros, as well as between carnal and sublimated eros, not itself in need of interrogation? Nygren's critique of synthetic theologies of love ...
... metaphor for philosophy Plato had to turn to the acceptably mutual desire of the heterosexual couple (since women will never grow up to be men, they are not dishonored—any more than they are already—by their love of being penetrated or ...
... explains why Diotima is not Aspasia. She is the possessor of neither a vagina for pleasure nor a womb for physical procreation but both, in her, are purely spiritual entities, metaphors that help us grasp the daniel boyarin 17.
... metaphors that help us grasp the proper eros. Ideal eros, for Plato, is entirely a mind-fuck.52 Socrates completes his ventriloquistic peroration by insisting: ''Such, Phaedrus, is the tale which I heard from the stranger of Mantinea ...
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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