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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... ancient and medieval writers forge ''syntheses'' of agape and eros in which eros almost inevitably sweeps agape up into its all-too-powerful currents, argues Nygren. This is nowhere more evident than in those In fact, theologians whose ...
... ancient text that itself already encompasses a multiplicity of voices. Here Daniel Boyarin directly engages Nygren's work, exposing a slippage in his interpretation of the Symposium. Nygren, argues Boyarin, falsely conflates the concept ...
... ancient and medieval as well as contemporary Christians. As resonances between premodern and postmodern texts and practices are explored, questions are implicitly raised about the transhistorical and transcultural analysis of eroticism ...
... ancient ascetic theorist Evagrius of Pontus in dialogue with philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy in such a way as to uncover prayer as the site of the advent of a love that cuts across, breaks, or shatters the subject. In the masochistic erotics ...
... in resistance to the conventions of the ancient city (and perhaps to sociopolitical ''convention'' per se) while at the same time disrupting the boy-versus-woman binary via the insertion of fictive 4 toward a theology of eros.
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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