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

Intro -- 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 -- Passion-Binding-Passion -- Praying Is Joying: Musings on Love in Evagrius Ponticus -- Carthage Didn't Burn Hot Enough: Saint Augustine's Divine Seduction -- PART IV. COSMOS, EROS, CREATIVITY -- American Transcendentalism's Erotic Aquatecture -- ''She Talks Too Much'': Magdalene Meditations -- Ethical Desires: Toward a Theology of Relational Transcendence -- New 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 Shulammite'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.

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