Toward a Theology of Eros : Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burrus, Virginia
Other Authors: Keller, Catherine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2006.
Series:Transdisciplinary theological colloquia.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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
  • Passionâ€?Bindingâ€?Passion
  • Praying Is Joying: Musings on Love in Evagrius Ponticus
  • Carthage Didnâ€?t Burn Hot Enough: Saint Augustineâ€?s Divine Seduction
  • Part IV: Cosmos, Eros, Creativity
  • American Transcendentalismâ€?s Erotic Aquatecture
  • â€?â€?She Talks Too Muchâ€?â€?: Magdalene Meditations
  • Ethical Desires: Toward a Theology of Relational TranscendenceNew 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 Shulammiteâ€?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