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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... writes, ''that Eros and Agape belong originally to two entirely separate spiritual worlds, between which no direct communication is possible.''1 Observing that Platonic eros is always already a sublimation of what he names ''vulgar Eros ...
... write on marriage and on sexual desire.''7 Surely, then, one of the most important tasks in constructing a genealogy of late ancient writings on sex and sexuality would be to achieve the most nuanced understanding possible of those ...
... writes: ''What Plato did was to take an embedded habit of speech (and thought) that seems to have become detached from a specific referent in the female body and, first to reembody it as 'feminine' by associating it with the female ...
... writes: ''What is the nature of this new brand of alien [the philosopher]? ... One of the most prominent aspects of Plato's definition of the philosopher is the opposition he forges between the philosophic 'outsider' and the various ...
... 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 first between the speeches ...
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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