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Author Padilla, Elaine.

Title Divine enjoyment : a theology of passion and exuberance / Elaine Padilla
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press : Oxford University Press, ©2015

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Contents Pain: groans and birth pangs of the divine enjoyment -- Yearning: traces of the divine erotic existence in the cosmos -- Permeability: the open wounds of the lovers' flesh -- Intensity: passionate becomings of the divine complex -- Impropriety: incarnations of carnivalesque passion and open-ended boundaries
Summary Padilla makes the case for a God of enjoyment who passionately suffers and yearns because of love, and permeably intermingles with the cosmos, loving intensely, and becoming like a divine silhouette of so 'good a lover' that grotesquely incarnates the many, even if appearing improper. The thematic development invites the reader to journey through paths of excess of the intemperate kind initially drawn from the insights of St. Thomas Aquinas on the ecstatic love of God, and encountered in the erotic poetry of mystics like St. Teresa de Avila
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject God (Christianity)
Pleasure -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
RELIGION -- Sexuality & Gender Studies.
God (Christianity)
Pleasure -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Form Electronic book
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