Most of them participated in the 2004 Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium hosted by Drew University’s Theological School, which bore the title ‘‘Transfiguring Passions: Theologies and Theories of Eros.’’ Others not among our authors also took part in that memorably rich and lively conversation, and many of their words and thoughts have left traces on the pages of this book-Cheryl Anderson, Chris Boesel, Danna Nolan Fewell, John Hoffmeyer, Otto Maduro, Dale Martin, Anna Mercedes, Stephen Moore, Peter Savastano, Terry Todd, and Richard Whaite. We are first and foremost grateful to the sixteen other authors who contributed to the text, responding patiently, warmly, and often quite amusingly to our repeated editorial requests. It goes without saying that a volume of this sort is the result of the collaborative efforts of a multitude. WolfsonĪfterword: A Theology of Eros, After Transfiguring Passion 兩 Catherine Keller Suffering Eros and Textual Incarnation: A Kristevan Reading of Kabbalistic Poetics Elliot R. The Shulammite’s Song: Divine Eros, Ascending and Descending 兩 Richard Kearney Lyrical Theology: The Song of Songs and the Advantage of Poetry 兩 Tod Linafelt R E R E A D I N G T H E S O N G O F S O N G S New Creations: Eros, Beauty, and the Passion for Transformation 兩 Grace Jantzen ‘‘She Talks Too Much’’: Magdalene Meditations Catherine KellerĮthical Desires: Toward a Theology of Relational Transcendence 兩 Mayra Rivera C O S M O S, E R O S, C R E AT I V I T YĪmerican Transcendentalism’s Erotic Aquatecture Robert S. Praying Is Joying: Musings on Love in Evagrius Ponticus 兩 Virginia BurrusĬarthage Didn’t Burn Hot Enough: Saint Augustine’s Divine Seduction 兩 Karmen MacKendrick Passion-Binding-Passion 兩 Yvonne Sherwood S A C R E D S U F F E R I N G, S U B L I M E S E D U C T I O N
Sexual Desire, Divine Desire Or, Queering the Beguines 兩 Amy Hollywoodįeetishism: The Scent of a Latin American Body Theology 兩 Marcella Marı´a Althaus-Reidĭigital Bodies and the Transformation of the Flesh 兩 Sheila Briggs Homoerotic Spectacle and the Monastic Body in Symeon the New Theologian 兩 Derek Krueger Sexing the Pauline Body of Christ: Scriptural Sex in the Context of the American Christian Culture War 兩 Diana M. Jordanįor the Love of God: The Death of Desire and the Gift of Life 兩 Mario Costa What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Platonic Love? 兩 Daniel Boyarinįlesh in Confession: Alcibiades Beside Augustine 兩 Mark D.
R E S TA G I N G T H E S Y M P O S I U M O N L OV E Introduction: Theology and Eros after Nygren Virginia Burrus cm.- (Transdisciplinary theological colloquia) Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Toward a theology of Eros : transfiguring passion at the limits of discipline / edited by Virginia Burrus and Catherine Keller. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means- electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. D G 9 = 6 B J C > K : G H > I N E G : H H C : L N D G Ĭopyright 䉷 2006 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. Committed to the slow transformation of religio-cultural symbolism, the colloquia continue Drew’s long history of engaging historical, biblical, and philosphical hermeneutics, practices of social justice, and experiments in theopoetics.Ĭatherine Keller, Director Virginia Burrus Stephen MooreĮ ROS Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of DisciplineĮDITED BY VIRGINIA BURRUS AND C AT H E R I N E K E L L E R Hosted annually by Drew University’s Theological School, the colloquia provide a matrix for such conversations, while Fordham University Press serves as the midwife for their publication. A multivocal discourse of theology takes place in the interstices, at once self-deconstructive in its pluralism and constructive in its affirmations.
With the gift of this history and in the spirit of its unrealized potential, the Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia intensify movement between and beyond the fields of religion. Theology has hovered for two millennia between scriptural metaphor and philosophical thinking it takes flesh in its symbolic, communal, and ethical practices.