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The embrace of eros : bodies, desires, and sexuality in Christianity / Margaret D. Kamitsuka, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--History of doctrines.
- Sex.
- Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 356 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780800696672
- 0800696670
- OCLC:
- 422764073
- Publisher Number:
- 99936508889
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