LEADER 05339nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910816571603321 005 20240416135009.0 010 $a0-8232-3671-4 010 $a1-282-69869-9 010 $a9786612698699 010 $a0-8232-3871-7 010 $a0-8232-2637-9 010 $a1-4294-7904-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823238712 035 $a(CKB)1000000000475213 035 $a(EBL)476638 035 $a(OCoLC)155852926 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021331 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14892 035 $a(DE-B1597)555390 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823238712 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239400 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10197144 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269869 035 $a(OCoLC)923763190 035 $a(OCoLC)1099035629 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476638 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239400 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476638 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000475213 100 $a20060829d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aToward a theology of Eros $etransfiguring passion at the limits of discipline /$fedited by Virginia Burrus and Catherine Keller 210 $aNew York, NY $cFordham University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (492 p.) 225 1 $aTransdisciplinary theological colloquia 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8232-2636-0 311 0 $a0-8232-2635-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tIntroduction: Theology and Eros after Nygren --$tWhat Do We Talk About When We Talk About Platonic Love? --$tFlesh in Confession: Alcibiades Beside Augustine --$tFor the Love of God: The Death of Desire and the Gift of Life --$tSexing the Pauline Body of Christ: Scriptural Sex in the Context of the American Christian Culture War --$tHomoerotic Spectacle and the Monastic Body in Symeon the New Theologian --$tSexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines --$tFeetishism: The Scent of a Latin American Body Theology --$tDigital Bodies and the Transformation of the Flesh --$tPassion?Binding?Passion --$tPraying Is Joying: Musings on Love in Evagrius Ponticus --$tCarthage Didn?t Burn Hot Enough: Saint Augustine?s Divine Seduction --$tAmerican Transcendentalism?s Erotic Aquatecture --$t??She Talks Too Much??: Magdalene Meditations --$tEthical Desires: Toward a Theology of Relational Transcendence --$tNew Creations: Eros, Beauty, and the Passion for Transformation --$tLyrical Theology: The Song of Songs and the Advantage of Poetry --$tThe Shulammite?s Song: Divine Eros, Ascending and Descending --$tSuffering Eros and Textual Incarnation: A Kristevan Reading of Kabbalistic Poetics --$tElliot R. Wolfson --$tNOTES --$tCONTRIBUTORS 330 $aWhat does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfigure doctrinal tropes? Avoiding the well-worn path of sexual moralizing while also departing decisively from Anders Nygren?s influential insistence that Christian agape must have nothing to do with worldly eros, this book explores what is still largely uncharted territory in the realm of theological erotics. The ascetic, the mystical, the seductive, the ecstatic?these are the places where the divine and the erotic may be seen to converge and love and desire to commingle. Inviting and performing a mutual seduction of disciplines, the volume brings philosophers, historians, biblical scholars, and theologians into a spirited conversation that traverses the limits of conventional orthodoxies, whether doctrinal or disciplinary. It seeks new openings for the emergence of desire, love, and pleasure, while challenging common understandings of these terms. It engages risk at the point where the hope for salvation paradoxically endangers the safety of subjects?in particular, of theological subjects?by opening them to those transgressions of eros in which boundaries, once exceeded, become places of emerging possibility. The eighteen chapters, arranged in thematic clusters, move fluidly among and between premodern and postmodern textual traditions?from Plato to Emerson, Augustine to Kristeva, Mechthild to Mattoso, the Shulammite to Molly Bloom, the Zohar to the Da Vinci Code. In so doing, they link the sublime reaches of theory with the gritty realities of politics, the boundless transcendence of God with the poignant transience of materiality. 410 0$aTransdisciplinary theological colloquia. 606 $aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aLove$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aSex 606 $aLove 615 0$aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aLove$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aLove. 676 $a128.46 701 $aBurrus$b Virginia$0729834 701 $aKeller$b Catherine$f1953-$0933476 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816571603321 996 $aToward a theology of Eros$93920758 997 $aUNINA