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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... question. To reach toward a theology of eros is already to question the binary opposition of divine love and human desire momentously inscribed by Anders Nygren in his magisterial tome Agape and Eros, initially penned in the 1930s and ...
... questions are implicitly raised about the transhistorical and transcultural analysis of eroticism or sexuality. If the queer of contemporary discourse depends upon resistance to the hegemony of the normal, how does it intersect with ...
... question of whether the focus on the sexed or the sexual is too exclusive for an eroticism construed as broadly and productively transgressive of difference. Marcella AlthausReid's provocative exploration of Latin American ''feetishism ...
... questions to which Catherine Keller returns us in her theological afterword. For now, let me suggest tentatively that if ''God is eros,'' as Pseudo-Dionysius (following Plotinus) insists in his erotic transposition of 1 John 4:8 and 4 ...
... questions, as David M. Halperin has realized, has to do with the question of Diotima's sex. In a compelling discussion, Halperin has argued that Diotima is a woman because she represents or substitutes for a ''real'' woman, Aspasia (the ...
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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