The Erotic Word

Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Bible

David M. Carr (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518162-3 (ISBN)

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Historically, the Bible has been used to drive a wedge between the spirit and the body. In this provocative 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. As a result, the journey toward God and the life-long engagement with our own sexual embodiment are inseparable. Humans, the Bible tells us, both male and female, were created in God's image, and eros--a fundamental longing for connection that finds abstract good in the pleasure we derive from the stimulation of the senses--is a central component of that image. The Bible, particularly the Hebrew Bible, affirms erotic passion, both eros between humans and eros between God and humans. In a sweeping examination of the sexual rules of the Bible, Carr asserts that Biblical "family values" are a far cry from anything promoted as such in contemporary politics. He concludes that passionate love--our preoccupaton therewith and pursuit thereof--is the primary human vocation, that eros is in fact the flavoring of life.

David Carr is Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.3.2005
Zusatzinfo	10 halftones & line illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 162 mm
Gewicht	349 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-518162-X / 019518162X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-518162-3 / 9780195181623
Zustand	Neuware