Download e-book for iPad: Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the by Virginia Burrus,Catherine Keller

Download e-book for iPad: Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the by Virginia Burrus,Catherine Keller

By Virginia Burrus,Catherine Keller

ISBN-10: 0823226352

ISBN-13: 9780823226351

ISBN-10: 0823226360

ISBN-13: 9780823226368

What does theology need to say concerning the position of eroticism within the salvific transformation of fellows and ladies, even of the cosmos itself? How, in flip, does eros infuse theological perform and transfigure doctrinal tropes? warding off the well-worn course of sexual moralizing whereas additionally departing decisively from Anders Nygren’s influential insistence that Christian agape should have not anything to do with worldly eros, this e-book explores what's nonetheless principally uncharted territory within the realm of theological erotics. The ascetic, the paranormal, the seductive, the ecstatic—these are the areas the place the divine and the erotic will be noticeable to converge and love and wish to commingle.

Inviting and acting a mutual seduction of disciplines, the quantity brings philosophers, historians, biblical students, and theologians right into a lively dialog that traverses the bounds of traditional orthodoxies, no matter if doctrinal or disciplinary. It seeks new openings for the emergence of hope, love, and delight, whereas hard universal understandings of those phrases. It engages chance on the element the place the wish for salvation satirically endangers the protection of subjects—in specific, of theological subjects—by beginning them to these transgressions of eros during which limitations, as soon as surpassed, develop into areas of rising possibility.

The eighteen chapters, prepared in thematic clusters, circulation fluidly between and among 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 hyperlink the elegant reaches of thought with the gritty realities of politics, the boundless transcendence of God with the poignant transience of materiality.

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