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Divine Enjoyment

A Theology of Passion and Exuberance

Divine Enjoyment

A Theology of Passion and Exuberance

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£76.00

Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823263561
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 02/12/2014
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm

This books theological and philosophical construction of a God of enjoyment poetically remaps divine love. Posing a critique to the Aristotelian unmoved mover whose intellective enjoyment is self-enclosed, this books affective tones depict a passionate God who intermingles with the cosmos to suffer and yearn out of love— even improper love.
Divine Enjoyment leads the reader to a path of excess, first in the form of an intellective appetite that for Aquinas places God beyond the divine self, then more erotically in the silhouette of a lover whose love is like the delectable pain of mystics. Culminating with banqueting, fiesta, and carnival, the book deterritorializes Gods affect, conceiving of an expansively hospitable enjoyment stemming from many life forms
With a renewed welcome for pleasure, the book also upholds a disruptive ethic. Ultimately, an immoderate God of love whose passionate enjoyment stems from the sufferings as well as joys of the cosmos offers another paradigm of lovingly enjoying oneself in relationship with passionate becomings that belong to many others.

Elaine Padilla

Elaine Padilla is Assistant Professor of Constructive Theology at New York Theological Seminary. Her theological analysis constructively interweaves current philosophical discourse with Christianity, Latin American and Latino/a religious thought, mysticism, ecology, and gender. She is the author of Divine Enjoyment: A Theology of Passion and Exuberance (Fordham University Press, 2015) and coeditor of a three- volume project with Peter C. Phan, Theology and Migration in World Christianity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013–15).

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