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Informationen zum Autor Virginia Burrus is Professor of Early Church History at Drew University Theological School. Her books include Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline (Fordham; co-edited with Catherine Keller). CATHERINE KELLER is Professor of Constructive Theology in the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University. She co-edited with Virginia Burrus the first volume of the Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia, Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline (Fordham), and co-edited with Laurel Kearns its second volume, Ecospirit: Philosophies and Religions for the Earth (Fordham). Previous books include Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming and On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process. Klappentext What might it mean! at this particular moment! to theologize eros! to eroticize theology? The ascetic! the mystical! the seductive! the ecstatic-such are the places where the divine and the erotic may be seen to converge and love and desire to commingle. Such too are the shared interests that bring philosophers! historians! biblical scholars! and theologians into spirited conversation in a multi-vocal volume that traverses the limits of conventional orthodoxies! both disciplinary and theological. The eighteen chapters move fluidly across 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 also link the sublime reaches of theory with the gritty realities of politics! the boundless transcendence of God with the poignant transience of materiality. Zusammenfassung 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. ...
