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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... this has anything to do with the mysticism of the East, it does have everything to do with the conceptions of the relations of the political body to the spiritual one in late ancient Judeo-Christianity. Christian celibate daniel boyarin 21.
... conception of eros as articulated in Diotima's discourse in Plato's Symposium with a few epitomes of postmetaphysical lack-based theories, whereby I will sketch out some of the limitations of these theories. I will then suggest and ...
... conception of love, or more precisely, erotic love, differs from Socrates's,5 then the basis of this difference is found here: For Diotima, eros does not operate according to a logic of exclusion; rather, it institutes a logic of ...
... conception of desire. Everyone, she claims, is ''pregnant in respect to both the body and the soul ... and when they reach a certain age, our nature desires to beget'' (206c). Both body and soul are pregnant, and it is this fecundity ...
... conceive and bear'' (209a) is more beautiful and immortal. Rather than physical or sexual intercourse, this intercourse is essentially dialectical, and what it produces are beautiful ideas. For Diotima, such an erotic relationship ...
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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