The Erotic Eucharist
Katie Grimes
Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est continues the magisterium's twentieth-century shift from an act-oriented, procreative approach to sexual ethics what I will term a heterosexually personalistic one. Situating heterosexual anthropology within cosmology, argues that just as God loves humanity with eros, so must human beings love each other heterosexually. Although depends upon explanatory power of heterosexuality, he perhaps unwittingly ends up depicting God's not iconically heterosexual, but queer. In casting queer, do not, even analogously, impute type homosexuality does heterosexuality. Instead, by drawing attention discursive specificity and historical instability both use “queer” recognize beyond categorization strange; it cannot be corralled into or contained historically specific notions homosexual. But this essay merely deconstruct Benedict's cosmology. It uncovers in Eucharistic transfiguration marital new promising way situating discussions about sex.
Journal of Religious Ethics