Passionate Embrace

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.

• | Author: Elisabeth Gerle
• | Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• | Publication Date: May 12, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 338 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 1532616015
• | ISBN-13: 9781532616013