Alien Sex

"Gerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture. In this work he uses cinema and the films it shows to think about the church and the visions of desire it displays." "In the figure of the alien, Loughlin finds a metaphor for that which is both most feared and desired: the body and its cravings. Secular culture follows St. Augustine in thinking sex an alien force within the body. But the ancient church also found in sex the presence of a yet stranger desire that secularity forgets: the divine eros that is always other to us even as it draws us into its embrace. In God we find that which is both infinitely alien and intimate to ourselves." "Alien Sex explores the Christian tradition of 'sacred eroticism' - from Gregory of Nyssa to Hans Urs von Balthasar. Through a close reading of such films as The Devils, Breaking the Waves and Derek Jarman's The Garden, Loughlin shoes how Christianity calls to us to view sexuality from the perspective of heaven, not in order to escape the body but to encounter it more intensively. Through desire of the body we regain paradise."--Jacket.

המשפט הראשון: The scene opens with a close-up of Leonard's face, Guy Pearce's face: stubbled, sharply boned, handsome, with bleached hair and two scratches on his left cheek.

שנה

2004

שפה

English

הוצאה

Blackwell Publishing Limited

מהדורות

6

עמודים

336

ISBN

9780631211808

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata