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The Embrace of Eros : Bodies, Desires, and Sexuality in Christianity /

Noted scholars and theologians assay the Christian traditions classic and contemporary understandings of sex, sexuality, and sexual identity. The project unfolds in three phases: contemporary assessments of the Christian tradition, new thinking about eros and being human religiously, and new perspec...

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Otros Autores: Kamitsuka, Margaret D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Margaret D. Kamitsuka
  • Part I. History : engaging eros in the tradition
  • Bible and sex / David H. Jensen
  • Early Christian contempt for the flesh and the woman who loved too much in the gospel of Luke / Mark I. Wallace
  • New Testament, empire, and homoeroticism / William Stacy Johnson
  • Augustine on eros, desire, and sexuality / John E. Thiel
  • Thomas Aquinas on the body and bodily passions / Corey Barnes
  • Humanae vitae, sexual ethics, and the Roman Catholic Church / Tatha Wiley
  • Reformation views on celibacy : an analogy for gay Protestants today / Paul E. Capetz
  • Part II. Culture : bodies, desires, and sexual identities
  • Passing as male in the academy : dynamics of performance and desire / Shannon Craigo-Snell
  • "Baptizing" queer characters / Mark D. Jordan
  • Eroticized wives : evangelical marriage guides and God's plan for the Christian family / Rebecca L. Davis
  • "Eros," AIDS, and African bodies : a theological commentary on deadly desires / Edward P. Antonio
  • Queering white male fear in the mirror of hip-hop erotics / James W. Perkinson
  • Part III. Reconstruction : erotic theology
  • Creation as God's call into erotic embodied relationality / Laurie A. Jungling
  • Promiscuous incarnation / Laurel C. Schneider
  • Ecclesiology, desire, and the erotic / Paul Lakeland
  • Sex in heaven? Eschatological eros and the resurrection of the body / Margaret D. Kamitsuka
  • "Flesh that dances" : a theology of sexuality and the spirit in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Joy R. Bostic
  • Afterword / Serene Jones.