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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... suggest tentatively that if ''God is eros,'' as Pseudo-Dionysius (following Plotinus) insists in his erotic transposition of 1 John 4:8 and 4:16, then perhaps eros is God. Or rather: eros is the power or process of divine self-othering ...
... suggest, promotes an erotics that is almost in binary opposition to the erotics of Athens as best represented in Pausanias's speech, and this is consistent with, indeed part and parcel of, Plato's whole stance vis-a`-vis the life of the ...
... suggest, we may find a genealogy for Christian sex: what Plato frames as the resistance of philosophy to rhetoric, late ancient Christians represent as the resistance of the ascetic to the everyday; for both, a celibate sex life is ...
... suggest that the Symposium is utterly of a piece with Plato's entire oeuvre in its articulation of a doubled socialspace (the polis versus the Academy—a full two miles away from the agora26) coarticulated with a doubled ontological ...
... suggest that using this eros/anteros as the model for ''mutual desire [that] makes possible the ungrudging exchange of questions and answers which constitutes the soul of philosophic practice'' could raise as many questions as it ...
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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