Toward a Theology of Eros : Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline.
Title:
Toward a Theology of Eros : Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline.
Author:
Burrus, Virginia.
ISBN:
9780823226375
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (491 pages)
Series:
Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
Contents:
Title Page -- About the Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theology and Eros after Nygren -- Part I: Restaging the Symposium on Love -- What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Platonic Love? -- Flesh in Confession: Alcibiades Beside Augustine -- For the Love of God: The Death of Desire and the Gift of Life -- Part II: Queer Desires -- Sexing the Pauline Body of Christ: Scriptural Sex in the Context of the American Christian Culture War -- Homoerotic Spectacle and the Monastic Body in Symeon the New Theologian -- Sexual Desire, Divine Desire -- Or, Queering the Beguines -- Feetishism: The Scent of a Latin American Body Theology -- Digital Bodies and the Transformation of the Flesh -- Part III: Sacred Suffering, Sublime Seduction -- Passion-Binding-Passion -- Praying Is Joying: Musings on Love in Evagrius Ponticus -- Carthage Didn't Burn Hot Enough: Saint Augustine's Divine Seduction -- Part IV: Cosmos, Eros, Creativity -- American Transcendentalism's Erotic Aquatecture -- ''She Talks Too Much'': Magdalene Meditations -- Ethical Desires: Toward a Theology of Relational Transcendence -- New Creations: Eros, Beauty, and the Passion for Transformation -- Part V: Rereading the Song of Songs -- Lyrical Theology: The Song of Songs and the Advantage of Poetry -- The Shulammite's Song: Divine Eros, Ascending and Descending -- Suffering Eros and Textual Incarnation: A Kristevan Reading of Kabbalistic Poetics -- Afterword: A Theology of Eros, After Transfiguring Passion -- Notes -- Contributors.
Abstract:
What might it mean, at this particular moment, to theologize eros, to eroticize theology? The ascetic, the mystical, the seductive, the ecstatic-such are the places where the divine and the erotic may be seen to converge and love and desire to commingle. Such too are the shared interests that bring philosophers, historians, biblical scholars, and theologians into spirited conversation in a multi-vocal volume that traverses the limits of conventional orthodoxies, both disciplinary and theological. The eighteen chapters move fluidly across and between premodern and postmodern textual traditions-from Plato to Emerson, Augustine to Kristeva, Mechthild to Mattoso, the Shulammite to Molly Bloom, the Zohar to the Da Vinci Code. In so doing, they also link the sublime reaches of theory with the gritty realities of politics, the boundless transcendence of God with the poignant transience of materiality.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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