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The erotic Word : sexuality, spirituality, and the Bible / David M. Carr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carr, David McLain, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex in the Bible.
- Gardens in the Bible.
- Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sex.
- Gardens--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Gardens.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Historically, the Bible has been used to drive a wedge between the spirit and the body. In this book, David Carr argues that it can - and should - do just the opposite. Sexuality and spirituality, Carr contends, are intricately interwoven: when one is improverished, the other is warped.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1 Introduction: The Bible and Eros; I: THE EDEN GARDEN AND THE LAW; 2 Before the Garden: Made in God's Bodily Image; 3 The Eden Garden, Part 1: Created for Erotic Connection; 4 The Eden Garden, Part 2: The Tragic Loss of Connectedness; 5 The ""Rules"": Biblical Sexual Morality; II: ISAIAH'S VINEYARD GARDEN AND THE PROPHETS; 6 Marriage to God: Isaiah's Vineyard and Other Images of Divine-Human Sexuality; 7 Unromantic Eros: Divine-Human Gender Terror, Religious Exclusivism, and Love Gone Wrong; III: THE GARDEN OF THE SONG OF SONGS AMIDST THE WRITINGS
- 8 Other Gardens: Women's Worlds and Ancient Love Poetry 9 Come to the Garden: A Walk through the Song of Songs; 10 The Erotic and the Mystical: Bringing Sexuality and Spirituality Together in Reading the Song of Songs; IV: CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS; 11 The Word Made Flesh: Echoes of Old Testament Gardens in the New Testament; 12 Epilogue: The Erotic Word; Notes; Index of Scriptural Citations; Index;
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773902-4
- 1-280-50252-5
- 9786610502523
- 0-19-803554-3
- 1-4237-2637-5
- OCLC:
- 476013252
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