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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Minneapolis, MN :
Fortress Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.