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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... interpretation of the Symposium. Nygren, argues Boyarin, falsely conflates the concept of a ''heavenly eros ... interpreted by the ascetics of later antiquity. Evading the particular binary of agape and eros (or, in Nygren's terms ...
... interpretations of the Song, uncovering at the intersection of Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions an eschatologically charged eroticism that subverts the Nygrenesque binary of agape and eros, descending and ascending desire ...
... interpretation. Finally, in the passage on love in the Laws, we find the same dichotomy between the lover who loves with the body and the lover for whom the desire of the body is incidental (837b).59 By staging the opposition between ...
... interpretation of desire has deleterious effects on the nature of the erotic attachments between human beings. As a manifestation of the will to power, which has as its aim the (too often violent) expansion of its own power, erotic love ...
... interpreted the legend of Tiresias, a seer who lived in a state of gender-flux, as an explanation of feminine passion (voluptas).58 Eunuchs, who were assimilated to androgynes, were likewise called ''dually natured'' (diphue ̄s ... kai ...
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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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