| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 356 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 perspectives on classic mysteries in light of eros and embodiment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex -- History of doctrines
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Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Sacred Sexuality.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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Sex -- History of doctrines
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Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Christentum
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Sexualität
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Leiblichkeit
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Begierde
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Theologie
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Sexualität.
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Eros.
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Körperlichkeit.
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Christentum.
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Kirchengeschichte.
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Theologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kamitsuka, Margaret D
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| ISBN |
9781451413519 |
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1451413513 |
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