The Embrace of Eros: Bodies, Desires, and Sexuality in Christianity

Contents

Contents Contributors vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Margaret D. Kamitsuka Part I. HIstory: EngagIng Eros In tHE tradItIon Chapter 1 The Bible and Sex 15 David H. Jensen Chapter 2 Early Christian Contempt for the Flesh 33 and the Woman Who Loved Too Much in the Gospel of Luke Mark I. Wallace Chapter 3 The New Testament, Empire, and Homoeroticism 51 William Stacy Johnson Chapter 4 Augustine on Eros, Desire, and Sexuality 67 John E. Thiel Chapter 5 Thomas Aquinas on the Body and Bodily Passions 83 Corey Barnes Chapter 6 Humanae vitae, Sexual Ethics, 99 and the Roman Catholic Church Tatha Wiley Chapter 7 Reformation Views on Celibacy: 115 An Analogy for Gay Protestants Today Paul E. Capetz Part II. CulturE: BodIEs, dEsIrEs, and sExual IdEntItIEs Chapter 8 Passing as Male in the Academy: 135 Dynamics of Performance and Desire Shannon Craigo-Snell Chapter 9 “Baptizing” Queer Characters 151 Mark D. Jordan Chapter 10 Eroticized Wives: Evangelical Marriage 165 Guides and God’s Plan for the Christian Family Rebecca L. Davis Chapter 11 “Eros,” AIDS, and African Bodies: 181 A Theological Commentary on Deadly Desires Edward P. Antonio Chapter 12 Queering White Male Fear in the Mirror 197 of Hip-Hop Erotics James W. Perkinson Part III. rEConstruCtIon: ErotIC tHEology Chapter 13 Creation as God’s Call into Erotic Embodied Relationality 217 Laurie A. Jungling Chapter 14 Promiscuous Incarnation 231 Laurel C. Schneider Chapter 15 Ecclesiology, Desire, and the Erotic 247 Paul Lakeland Chapter 16 Sex in Heaven? 261 Eschatological Eros and the Resurrection of the Body Margaret D. Kamitsuka Chapter 17 “Flesh That Dances”: A Theology 277 of Sexuality and the Spirit in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Joy R. Bostic Afterword 297 Serene Jones Notes 303 Biblical Reference Index 345 General Index 347 ...