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Paperback / softback. New. What 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? This book aims to explore a largely uncharted territory in the realm of theological erotics. ISBN 0823226360 9780823226368 [GB]

Fordham Univ Pr, Date: 2006. Paperback. New. 4th edition. 408 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. 2006. Fordham Univ Pr ISBN 0823226360 9780823226368 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0823226360, ISBN13: 9780823226368, [publisher: Fordham University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - What 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 ...
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