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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... possible.''1 Observing that Platonic eros is always already a sublimation of what he names ''vulgar Eros,'' he insists that there ''is no way, not even that of sublimation, which leads over from Eros to Agape.''2 Neither is more sublime ...
... possible link between human sexuality and Christian love. Indeed, 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 ...
... possible echoes in Symeon's work of the teasingly cloaked erotic exchange between Alcibiades and Socrates with which Plato's Symposium concludes. Amy Hollywood, in turn, explores the fascinatingly fluid, culturally transgressive erotic ...
... possible of those ideés recues themselves, and, in particular, of their conflictual dynamics. Here I would like to present a reading of the Symposium that points up the radical difference between Platonic and Pausanian love, disrupting ...
... possible the ungrudging exchange of questions and answers which constitutes the soul of philosophic practice.''33 Halperin concludes, ''Since any beautiful soul can serve as a mirror for any other, reciprocal desire need not be confined ...
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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