Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction: Theology and Eros after Nygren xiii
5. PART I . RESTAGING THE SYMPOSIUM ON LOVE
6. What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Platonic Love? 1
7. Flesh in Confession: Alcibiades Beside Augustine 23
8. For the Love of God: The Death of Desire and the Gift of Life 38
9. PART II. QUEER DESIRES
10. Sexing the Pauline Body of Christ: Scriptural Sex in the Context of the American Christian Culture War 63
11. Homoerotic Spectacle and the Monastic Body in Symeon the New Theologian 99
12. Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines 119
13. Feetishism: The Scent of a Latin American Body Theology 134
14. Digital Bodies and the Transformation of the Flesh 153
15. PART III. SACRED SUFFERING, SUBLIME SEDUCTION
16. Passion—Binding—Passion 167
17. Praying Is Joying: Musings on Love in Evagrius Ponticus 194
18. Carthage Didn’t Burn Hot Enough: Saint Augustine’s Divine Seduction 205
19. PART IV. COSMOS, EROS, CREATIVITY
20. American Transcendentalism’s Erotic Aquatecture 219
21. ‘‘She Talks Too Much’’: Magdalene Meditations 234
22. Ethical Desires: Toward a Theology of Relational Transcendence 255
23. New Creations: Eros, Beauty, and the Passion for Transformation 271
24. PART V. REREADING THE SONG OF SONGS
25. Lyrical Theology: The Song of Songs and the Advantage of Poetry 289
26. The Shulammite’s Song: Divine Eros, Ascending and Descending 306
27. Suffering Eros and Textual Incarnation: A Kristevan Reading of Kabbalistic Poetics 341
28. Elliot R. Wolfson 366
29. NOTES 375
30. CONTRIBUTORS 465