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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... senses) to its limits in a stretch toward transcendence. But what kind of transcendence is imagined or hoped for? The essays gathered here offer a variety of answers to this question. To reach toward a theology of eros is already to ...
... sense that it will be for Jews and Christians.65 However, much more important in my view is the essential positing of a spiritual love that is not only not physical but in important ways directly opposed to the physical. The bottom line ...
... sense, Augustine is held by a marriage arrangement. He has described already how his sainted mother, Monica, pushed for an arranged marriage to an acceptable girl (6.13.23). Though she was two years under the minimum age (possibly ...
... sense, then, eros ascends beyond the physical to the metaphysical, beyond the ''images of virtue [to] true virtue'' (212a). At this stage, erotic love takes a noetic turn, and the lover's erotic attachments to the multiplicity of ...
... sense of overwhelming loss—the loss of value, meaning, and truth. Consider the famous section in The Gay Science, where the madman's desire for God—he is ''crying incessantly, 'I'm looking for God! I'm looking for God'''12—is frustrated ...
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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