Divine Enjoyment : A Theology of Passion and Exuberance /

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Padilla makes the case for a God of enjoyment who passionately suffers and yearns because of love, and permeably intermingles with the cosmos, loving intensely, and becoming like a divine silhouette of so 'good a lover' that grotesquely incarnates the many, even if appearing improper. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Padilla, Elaine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pleasure > Religious aspects > Christianity.
God (Christianity)
RELIGION > Sexuality & Gender Studies.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
Plaisir > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Dieu (Christianisme)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pain: groans and birth pangs of the divine enjoyment
  • Yearning: traces of the divine erotic existence in the cosmos
  • Permeability: the open wounds of the lovers' flesh
  • Intensity: passionate becomings of the divine complex
  • Impropriety: incarnations of carnivalesque passion and open-ended boundaries.

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