Transfiguring Passions: Theologies and Theories of Eros
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Paper presenters and titles of papers:

Marcella Althaus-Reid, University of Edinburgh
Kissing Evita's Shoes: Feetishism -- The Scent of a Latin American Body Theology

Daniel Boyarin, University of California at Berkeley
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About (Platonic) Love: The Symposium and Christian Erotics

Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California
Digital Bodies and the Transformation of the Flesh

Virginia Burrus, Drew University
Praying is Joying: Musings on Love in Evagrius of Pontus's Chapters On Prayer

Robert Corrington, Drew University
American Transcendentalism's Erotic Aqua-tecture

Amy Hollywood, University of Chicago
Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or Queering the Beguines

Grace Jantzen, University of Manchester
Thantos and the Passion for Transformation

Richard Kearney, Boston College
Divine Eros - Ascending and Descending

Tod Linafelt, Georgetown University
Lyrical Theology: The Song of Songs and the Advantage of Poetry

Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College
Carthage Didn't Burn Hot Enough: St. Augustine's Divine Seduction

Yvonne Sherwood, University of Glasgow
Passion. Binding. Passion.

Diana Swancutt, Yale Divinity School
Making Sex Work: A Queer Proposal for a Christian Ethics of Sexual Service

 
External Respondents/Discussants:

Cheryl Anderson, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
John Hoffmeyer, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Mark Jordan, Emory University
Dale Martin, Yale University
Elliot Wolfson, New York University

 
Student Session:

Mario Costa, "For the Love of God: the Death of Desire and the Gift of Love."
Anna Mercedes, "Kenotic Desire, Becoming Self"
Mayra Rivera, "Memory of the Flesh: Divine Transcendence and Human Otherness"
Richard Patrick Whaite, "Desiring Anthropology: the Soul and Materiality"