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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... appears also to lie close to the heart of creativity and thus of cosmology, an insight that Nygren, however, resists in his attempt to distance creativity from eros by aligning it strictly with the agapic. The essays in part 4 bring our ...
... appears and what is true, doxa and episteme). There is a doubled female figure that corresponds to this doubling, as well: Aspasia who belongs to the agora vs. Diotima who belongs to the Academy, if not further than that.27 Finally ...
... appears to have despised). The kind of mutuality in eros traditionally imputed to women in Greek culture could therefore find a new home in the erotic dynamics of Platonic love.''34 I need to unpack Halperin's argument a bit here, for ...
... appears when Agathon begins his own speech by insisting that before speaking he will have to theorize about speech—about what is proper and improper form in such a speech. Plato is explicitly setting Agathon up as a rhetor, that is, as ...
... appear to regard the greatest evil of Greek life as a matter of abhorrence, but as a subject for irony, and is far from resenting the imputation of such attachments.''2 Daniel Boyarin's rereading of the Symposium brings us back to ...
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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