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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... 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 to the point of crisis, jamming and ...
... perhaps confinable at all, as Nygren intuited; it appears also to lie close to the heart of creativity and thus of cosmology, an insight that Nygren, however, resists in his attempt to distance creativity from eros by aligning it ...
... perhaps also of theology, that exceeds even the complexities of narrative through an irruption of lyricism that evades linear temporality by performing a rhythmic sensuality that seduces our participation and thereby promises ...
... resistance to the conventions of the ancient city (and perhaps to sociopolitical ''convention'' per se) while at the same time disrupting the boy-versus-woman binary via the insertion of fictive 4 toward a theology of eros.
... perhaps, whose career has been interrupted by exile, and who for want of corrupting influences has followed his nature and remained with philosophy. Or a great mind born in a small city, who thinks the political affairs of his city ...
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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