Weaving together psychoanalytical, philosophical, and theological thought from art and literature, this work provides a fresh perspective on how humans can make sense of suffering and finitude and how our existence as sexual beings shapes our relations to one another and the divine.

Matthew Clemente, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College specializing in existentialism, philosophy of religion, and contemporary Continental thought. He is the associate editor of the Journal of Continental Philosophy and Religion (Brill) and the co-editor of three philosophical volumes: The Art of Anatheism (2017), misReading Nietzsche (2018), and Richard Kearney's Anatheistic Wager (2018).

A brief disclaimer: Knowing that you know not, or how to read philosophy

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I - Creation: A Theological Aesthetic

1. Oedipus and Adam: The genesis of Eros and the infancy of man

2. Creation: Eros as word

3. Incarnation: Eros as touch, caress, kiss

4. Eschaton: Sex as contradiction

Part II - Incarnation: A Theological Dramatic

5. The hermeneutics of desire: On the Song of Songs

6. Triune Eros

7. Thanatos: Descent into the Id

8. Resurrection ex nihilo: From nothing to all things made new

Afterword - Eschaton: A Theopoetic

Conclusion - Eternal recurrence of the new: A repetition forward

Index