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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... present a reading of the Symposium that points up the radical difference between Platonic and Pausanian love, disrupting not only Nygren's view but also a more recent (Foucauldian) scholarly consensus inclined to place Plato's theory of ...
... present but for the future, he is merely demonstrating that this case confirms the second point: The healthy man desires what he currently lacks, health in the future. After Agathon agrees to these points, he capitulates to Socrates's ...
... 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 network of passions in ...
... present to desire is its own lack. But if Socrates here advances a lack-based conception of desire, it is merely a provisional one. And it is one that he did not learn from she who taught him ''in the things of love,'' Diotima (201d) ...
... present to him as possessions, for ''whatever is provided ever slips away so that Eros is never rich nor at a loss'' (203d–e). Eros forever stands between lack and fulfillment, and makes possible the passage between them. On the basis ...
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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