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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... experience, a species of flattery; its effect on the hearer is like witchcraft or enchantment.''20 The analogy (or better, homology) in the realm of erotics is only too clear. Aspasia can teach only the false use of language, just as ...
... run away and escaped, if there had been a place to go. And, you see, the speech reminded me of Gorgias, so that I actually experienced what Homer describes: I was afraid that Agathon would end by 14 toward a theology of eros.
... experienced corporally to souls experienced spiritually. Instead for those in the category of philosophers (from infancy, practically, or by accident of ill-birth; the alien, the ill), it is progress from bodies experienced spiritually ...
... experience both, that every corruptible thing comes from an incorruptible source (8.1.1, compare 7.10.16). This philosophic quest began with Cicero's Hortensius (8.7.17), but it has led into Christian revelation: The incorruptible Light ...
... experience and sensibilities. All religions, consequently, are manifestations of a wish fulfillment, a desire to return to ego-life prior to separation and loss. This desire, however, is just as frustrated, because just as impossible ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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