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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... never spontaneous; he is not an independent centre of activity. His giving of himself to God is never more than a response. At its best and highest, it is but a reflex of God's love, by which it is 'motivated.' ... [I]t lacks all the ...
... never finished. Nygren continues Luther's legacy, as he understands it, resisting the confluence of agape and eros with his own prodigious scholarly labors. Yet a reader of Nygren's historical study might well wonder whether agape, now ...
... never absolute. To be an erotic subject is, perhaps, to begin to transfigure—even to pervert—the submission that inheres in subjection. Where submission is actively courted, chosen, or willed, the complication of agency is intensified ...
... never, not even once, write a proper hymn to Love'' (177c).30 To which plaint Eryximachus immediately responds that this is exactly what they will spend the evening doing. This contrast between epideictic encomia and dialogue comes ...
... never grow up to be men, they are not dishonored—any more than they are already—by their love of being penetrated or love and desire for the one who penetrates them). While I accept that the procreative motive as Plato's new model for ...
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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