Toward a Theology of Eros by Virginia Burrus

Toward a Theology of Eros by Virginia Burrus

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.

"..the essays are meaty, rigorous, thoughtful...There's something in this volume for just about everyone." -The Biblical and Critical Theory "Writings on covergences between the erotic and the theological such as in the realms of the ascetic, the mystical, and the ecstatic." -The Chronicle of Higher Education " [A] fascinating volume ..." -Religious Studies Review

Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. Her teaching and research interests in the field of ancient Christianity include gender, asceticism, constructions of orthodoxy and heresy, and the history of theology. She is currently president of the North American Patristics Society and co-editor of the University of Pennsylvania Press series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. She is the author of six books, including Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions (Fordham University Press, 2010), co-written with Mark Jordan and Karmen MacKendrick; and Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). She is also coeditor, with Catherine Keller, of Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion of the Limits of Discipline (Fordham University Press, 2006).

Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in The Graduate Division of Religion, Drew University. She works amid the tangles of ecosocial, pluralist, feminist philosophy of religion and theology. Her books include Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming; On the Mystery; Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public. She has co-edited several volumes of the Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium, most recently Political Theology on Edge: Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene. Her latest monograph is Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances.

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ISBN 13	9780823226368
ISBN 10	0823226360
Title	Toward a Theology of Eros
Author	Virginia Burrus
Series	Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Fordham University Press
Year published	2007-01-15
Number of pages	408
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