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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... examples of such erotic excess in the history of Christian thought. However, it is Augustine's theology of caritas, together with Pseudo-Dionysius's Neoplatonic erotics, that Nygren credits with ultimate responsibility for medieval ...
... example, lie altogether outside the field of the erotic. The dilemma is real: the desire for justice may seem at points to require the forcible constraint of the erotic, yet to foreclose on the inherent transgressiveness of eros is also ...
... example, there is also little difference between Pausanian heavenly love and Platonic love, though his reasoning is almost the opposite: ''One should keep in mind that [Platonic] 'asceticism' was not a means of disqualifying the love of ...
... formed body that keeps him out of the erotic and political commerce described, for example, by symposiast Pausanias, or is one who is blessed with a certain mantic ability as Socrates is. Diotima has all three of daniel boyarin 9.
... example, Karmen MacKendrick will argue that Augustine sought out his final deity, the God of Christian scriptures, in order to satisfy his erotic desires.13 I want to follow her reading by juxtaposing Augustine's narrative in ...
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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