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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... understandings of these terms. It engages risk at the point where the hope for salvation paradoxically endangers the safety of subjects—in particular, of theological subjects—by opening them to those transgressions of eros in which ...
... understanding of medieval kabbalists. The intense yearning for erotic dissolution, which by definition puts ''selves'' at risk, is here engaged more appreciatively than it was by Nygren, to say the least. Yet it must be acknowledged ...
... understanding 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 ...
... 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.
... 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 also, as such, she is totally out of ...
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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