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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... explain why Plato remains invested in that tradition.15 For my part, I want to dwell on this account a bit longer. . . In the AlOn my reading, the relationship to Aspasia is crucial for understanding 6 toward a theology of eros.
... relationship to Aspasia is crucial for understanding the counter-political eros of the Symposium.16 Not only is Diotima a prophetess from Prophetville (in Halperin's delightful translation of Mantinea) and thus a source of authority but ...
... relationship between Socrates and Diotima, models, as it were, the possibility of a purely spiritual eros between a man and a woman while theorizing that nonsexual eros as procreative in both its same-sex and other-sex (but always no ...
... relationship between Agathon and his actual lover, Pausanias. The same relations of power and hierarchy apply as in Athenian man-boy love: Agathon must assent to Socrates's reasoning, but the realm is not of the body but of the soul.46 ...
... relationship, nor did it concern the subject of this desire; their anxiety was focused on the object of pleasure, or more precisely, on that object insofar as he would have to become in turn the master in the pleasure that was enjoyed ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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