The embrace of eros : bodies, desires, and sexuality in Christianity / Margaret D. Kamitsuka, editor.

Introduction / Margaret D. Kamitsuka
Part I. History: engaging eros in the tradition. Bible and sex / David H. Jensen
Early Christian contempt for the flesh and the woman who loved too much in the gospel of Luke / Mark I. Wallace
New Testament, empire, and homoeroticism / William Stacy Johnson
Augustine on eros, desire, and sexuality / John E. Thiel
Thomas Aquinas on the body and bodily passions / Corey Barnes
Humanae vitae, sexual ethics, and the Roman Catholic Church / Tatha Wiley
Reformation views on celibacy: an analogy for gay Protestants today / Paul E. Capetz
Part II. Culture: bodies, desires, and sexual identities. Passing as male in the academy: dynamics of performance and desire / Shannon Craigo-Snell
"Baptizing" queer characters / Mark D. Jordan
Eroticized wives: evangelical marriage guides and God's plan for the Christian family / Rebecca L. Davis
"Eros," AIDS, and African bodies: a theological commentary on deadly desires / Edward P. Antonio
Queering white male fear in the mirror of hip-hop erotics / James W. Perkinson
Part III. Reconstruction: erotic theology. Creation as God's call into erotic embodied relationality / Laurie A. Jungling
Promiscuous incarnation / Laurel C. Schneider
Ecclesiology, desire, and the erotic / Paul Lakeland
Sex in heaven? Eschatological eros and the resurrection of the body / Margaret D. Kamitsuka
"Flesh that dances": a theology of sexuality and the spirit in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Joy R. Bostic
Afterword / Serene Jones.