Erotic Word Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Bible

Name: Erotic Word Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Bible
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ISBN: 9780195181623

ISBN-10: 019518162X

ISBN-13: 9780195181623

Edition: 2005 (Reprint)

Authors: David M. Carr

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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…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.990




Introduction : the Bible and eros



Before the garden : made in God's bodily image



The Eden garden, part 1 : created for erotic connection



The Eden garden, part 2 : the tragic loss of connectedness



The "rules" : biblical sexual morality



Marriage to God : Isaiah's vineyard and other images of divine-human sexuality



Unromantic eros : divine-human gender terror, religious exclusivism, and love gone wrong



Other gardens : women's worlds and ancient love poetry



Come to the garden : a walk through the Song of songs



The erotic and the mystical : bringing sexuality and spirituality together in reading the Song of songs



The word made flesh : echoes of Old Testament gardens in the New Testament



Epilogue : the erotic word