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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... gives pleasure or pain to the hearer, and organized like the work of an artist to attain its aim. Then there is base rhetoric, aimed at gratification and pleasure, organized randomly according to knack and experience, a species of ...
... give an amazing speech and I would be tongue-tied?'' ''You were prophetic about one thing, I think,'' said Eryximachus, ''that Agathon would speak well. But you, tongue-tied? No, I don't believe that.'' ''Bless you,'' said Socrates ...
... gives every sign in the present of aggressive infatuation, despite his nickname ''malakos'' (173d): soft, gentle, self-indulgent—or effeminate. The occasion for the original banquet is the same as the occasion for its being retold: a ...
... gives his reflection of his heroism at Potidaea. On the very day he got back from the campaign, he went to one of his usual haunts—a gym (Charmides 153a). There his friends eagerly sought news of the battle in which so many had fallen ...
... gives them power. The turning he narrates in Confessions 8 is triumph over flesh by a nominally incarnate God, whose handmaid Continence begins to resemble Diotima entirely too much. Augustine disdains the impotent arrogance of the ...
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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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