Name/Title
The embrace of eros :bodies, desires, and sexuality in Christianity /Margaret D. Kamitsuka, editor.Description
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.
xi, 356 p. ;23 cm.Book Details
Date Published
circa 2010Publication Subjects
Sex--History of doctrines.
Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.Call No.
BT708 .E43 2010ISBN
9780800696672 (alk. paper), 0800696670 (alk. paper)LCCN
2009042985Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.