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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 45
... Socrates with which the Symposium concludes an unsettling of the certainties of all of the prior speeches—not least Diotima's cited doctrine of radical sublimation. If the Symposium is both less ascetic and less didactic on Jordan's ...
... Socrates with which Plato's Symposium concludes. Amy Hollywood, in turn, explores the fascinatingly fluid, culturally transgressive erotic subjectivities emerging in the recorded visions of female medieval mystics Mechthild of Magdeburg ...
... Socrates, arguably lays greater claim to representing Plato's definitive views on love. Thus, in referring to ''heavenly Eros'' as that ''of which Plato and his followers speak,'' Nygren erases any difference between the Pausanian ...
... Socrates, advocates a philosophical flight not only from carnal sex but also from the indeterminacies of truth and power inherent to the politics of democracy. Nygren is, of course, not the only one to have collapsed this distinction ...
... Socrates's recounting of Diotima's speech is at least equally important, especially if we are seeking better understanding of the continuities between ancient Greek and late ancient Judeo-Christian cultural formations.11 One of the most ...
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 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline Virginia Burrus,Catherine Keller Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2006 |
Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline Virginia Burrus,Catherine Keller Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2006 |