The embrace of eros
Subtitle: bodies, desires, and sexuality in Christianity
By: [edited by] Margaret D. Kamitsuka.
Contributors: Kamitsuka, Margaret D.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780800696672
Subjects: Sex -- History of doctrines; Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Margaret D. Kamitsuka; title: Part I: History : engaging eros in the tradition; title: The Bible and sex / David H. Jensen; title: Early Christian contempt for the flesh and the woman who loved too much in the Gospel of Luke / Mark I. Wallace; title: The New Testament, empire, and homoeroticism / William Stacy Johnson; title: Augustine on eros, desire, and sexuality / John E. Thiel; title: Thomas Aquinas on the body and bodily passions / Corey Barnes; title: Reformation views on celibacy : an analogy for gay Protestants today / Paul E. Capetz; title: Humanae vitae, sexual ethics, and the Roman Catholic Church / Tatha Wiley; title: Part II: Culture : bodies, desires, and sexual identities; title: Passing as male in the academy : dynamics of performance and desire / Shannon Craigo-Snell; title: "Baptizing" queer characters / Mark D. Jordan; title: Eroticized wives : evangelical marriage guides and God's plan for the Christian family / Rebecca L. Davis; title: "Eros," aids, and african bodies : a theological commentary on deadly desires / Edward P. Antonio; title: Queering white male fear in the mirror of hip-hop erotics / James W. Perkinson; title: Part III: Reconstruction: erotic theology; title: Creation as God's call into erotic embodied relationality / Laurie A. Jungling; title: Promiscuous incarnation / Laurel C. Schneider; title: Ecclesiology, desire, and the erotic / Paul Lakeland; title: Sex in heaven : eschatological eros and the resurrection of the body / Margaret D. Kamitsuka; title: "Flesh that dances" : a theology of sexuality and the spirit in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Joy R. Bostic; title: Afterword / Serene Jones.