The Erotic Word: Sexuality, Spirituality, And The Bible
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- Synopsis
- 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.
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Book Details
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780195343557
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 09/30/22
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- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Home and Garden, Religion and Spirituality
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- This is a copyrighted book.