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

by Virginia Burrus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823226360
• ISBN13: 9780823226368
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"