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Passionate embrace : Luther on love, body, and sensual presence / Elisabeth Gerle.
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Gerle, Elisabeth
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Language
English
Published/Created
Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2017]
©2017
Description
xiii, 323 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BR333.5.S49 G47 2017
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Sex
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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History of doctrines
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16th century
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Human body
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Love
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Luther, Martin 1483-1546
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Summary note
"Luther, passion, and sensualism? In an age of body worship as well as body loathing, Elisabeth Gerle explores new paths. Protestant ethics has often been associated with work and duty, excluding sensuality, sexuality, and other pleasures. Gerle embarks on a conversation with Martin Luther in dialogue with contemporary theologians on attitudes toward body, sensuality, desire, sexuality, life, and politics. She draws on Eros theology to challenge traditional Lutheran stereotypes, such as the dichotomies between different forms of love, as well as between spirit and body. Gerle argues that Luther's spiritual breakthrough, where grace and gifts of creation became central, provides new meaning to sex and desire as well as to work, body, and ordinary life. Women are seen in new light--as companions, autonomous ethical agents, part of the priesthood of all. This had revolutionary consequences in medieval Europe, and it represents a challenge to contemporary theologies with a nostalgic appetite for austerity, asceticism, and female submission. Luther's erotic and gender-fluid language is a healthy challenge to oppressive political structures centered on greed, profit, and competition. A revised Scandinavian creation theology and a deep sense of the incarnational mystery are resources for contemporary theology and ethics." -- Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323).
Contents
The contemporary landscape: body worship and body loathing
Luther: heroic liberator or oppressor?
Human bodies as a phenomenon: body theology and longing for the past
A woman reads Origen, Augustine, Bernard, and Luther
The movement of the senses: towards the everyday
Commercial transaction or loving embrace?
Eros as poisoned chalice, medicine, or everyday body?: eros and agape in a new light
Eros theology challenges traditional Lutheran binary opposites
Body, sexuality, and institutions: roads to salvation, disciplining, or presence and gift?
Passion that transforms: patriarchy and paradise, personal and private
Birth and blossoming: passionate vision for the future and contrast to greed.
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ISBN
9781532615993 ((paperback))
153261599X ((paperback))
9781532616013 ((hardcover))
1532616015 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2017303048
OCLC
978291195
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