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

Margaret D. Kamitsuka

Jan 2010 · Fortress Press

About this ebook

The topic of sexuality intersects directly with the most contested historical, theological, and ethical questions of our day. In this edgy yet profound volume, noted scholars and theologians assay the Christian tradition's classic and contemporary understandings of sex, sexuality, and sexual identity.

The project unfolds in three phases: contemporary assessments of the Christian tradition, new thinking about eros and being human religiously, and new perspectives on classic mysteries in light of eros and embodiment.

About the author

Margaret Kamitsuka is the Francis W. and Lydia L. Davis Professor Emeritus of Religion at Oberlin College, Ohio. She is the author of Unborn Bodies (2023), Abortion and the Christian Tradition (2019), and Feminist Theology and the Challenge of Difference (2007). She edited The Embrace of Eros: Bodies, Desires, and Sexuality in Christianity (2010) and is coeditor of The T & T Clark Reader in Abortion and Religion (2023). She has published widely, including in The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality and Gender, Journal of Religious Ethics, Journal for the Feminist Study of Religion, Theology Today, and Christianity and Literature. She serves in public-facing forums as an expert on issues of reproductive ethics and abortion.