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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... marriage in 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.
... woman binary via the insertion of fictive female figures (Diotima, Philosophia) into the male-male erotic economy ... woman because she represents or substitutes for a ''real'' woman, Aspasia (the much cherished lover of Pericles), about ...
... woman, any woman, to be the mouthpiece of his erotic theory.'' So far, so good. However Halperin goes on to say: ''But in order to replace Aspasia with another woman who was not a hetaira, Plato had to find an alternate source of erotic ...
... woman is produced to teach him proper erotics. As Allen, with his characteristic perspicacity puts it: ''We know where we are [in the Menexenus]. Socrates in the Gorgias distinguishes two kinds of rhetoric. There is philosophical ...
... woman. She is, however, on this reading a real, if fictional, female. The substitution of the Mantinean mantic for the Athenian partner, lover, politician, mother (not demimondaine), was a very marked one indeed. If Aspasia is the ...
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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