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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815680003321

Autore

Watson Francis <1956->

Titolo

Agape, eros, gender : towards a Pauline sexual ethic / / Francis Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-107-11857-3

0-511-01345-0

1-280-42095-2

0-511-17440-3

0-511-15433-X

0-511-32520-7

0-511-48820-3

0-511-04901-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

233/.5

Soggetti

Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity

Agapaō (The Greek word)

Sex role - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di contenuto

I. Velamen: 1 Corinthians 11 -- 1. Belonging together -- 2. Eros veiled -- II. Concupiscentia: Romans 7 -- 3. Sex: a critique -- 4. The Tombs of Desire -- III. Sacramentum: Ephesians 5 -- 5. Eros transfigured? -- 6. Engendering agape.

Sommario/riassunto

Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation, although its own standpoint is broadly theological. In contrast to many contemporary feminist theologies, gender and sexuality (eros) are here understood within a distinctively Christian context characterized by the reality of agape - the New Testament's term for the comprehensive divine-human love that includes the relationship of man and woman within its scope. The central problem is concern with key Pauline texts relating to gender and sexuality (1 Cor. 11, Rom. 7, Eph. 5), texts whose influence on



western theology and culture has been enduring and pervasive. They are read here in conjunction with later theological and non-theological texts that reflect that influence - ranging from Augustine and Barth to Virginia Woolf, Freud and Irigaray.