The embrace of eros :  bodies, desires, and sexuality in Christianity / 
Margaret D. Kamitsuka, editor. 
 - Minneapolis, MN :  Fortress Press,  c2010. 
 - xi, 356 p. ;  pbk ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Margaret D. Kamitsuka Early Christian contempt for the flesh and the woman who loved too much in the Gospel of Luke / David H. Jensen -- The New Testament, empire and homoeroticism / William Stacy Johnson -- Augustine on eros, desire and sexuality / John E. Thiel -- Thomas Aquinas on the body and bodily passions / Corey Barnes -- Humanae vitae, sexual ethics and the Roman Catholic Church / Tatha Wiley -- Reformation views on celibacy : an analogy for gay Protestants today / Paul E. Capetz.  Part 1 : History : engaging eros in the tradition. Passing as male in the Academy : dynamics of performance and desire / Shannon Craigo-Snell -- "Baptizing" queer characters / Mark D. Jordan -- Eroticized wives : evangelical marriage guides and God's plan for the Christian family / Rebecca L. Davis -- "Eros", AIDS and African bodies : a theological commentary on deadly desires / Edward P. Antonio -- Queering white male fear in the mirror of hip-hop erotics / James W. Perkinson.  Part 2. Culture : bodies, desire and sexual identities. Creation as God's call into erotic embodied relationality / Laurie A. Jungling -- Promiscuous incarnation / Laurel C. Schneider -- Ecclesiology, desire and the erotic / Paul Lakeland -- Swx in Heaven? : Eschatological eros and the resurrection of the body / Margaret D. Kamitsuka -- "Flesh that dances" : a theology of sexuality and the Spirit in Tom Morrison's "Beloved" / Joy R. Bostic.  Part 3. Reconstruction : erotic theology. Afterword / Serene Jones. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780800696672 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009042985 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB034607  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015500882  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sex--History of doctrines.<br/>Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>233.5/EMB