Seducing Augustine : Bodies, Desires, Confessions.

By:

Burrus, Virginia

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780823231959

Subject(s):

Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Seducing AugustineDDC classification:

270.2092

LOC classification:

BR65.A62 -- B85 2010eb

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Contents:

Seducing Augustine -- Contents -- Preface -- Seducing Augustine -- Introduction -- Secrets and Lies -- The Word , His Body -- Freedom in Submission -- No Time for Sex -- Conclusion -- Note s -- Works Cited -- Index.

Summary: Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt to do just that. Where prior interpreters have been inclined either to defend or to criticize Augustine's views, Virginia Burrus, Mark Jordan, and Karmen MacKendrick set out both to seduce and to be seduced by his text.Often ambivalent but always passionately engaged, their readings of the Confessions center on four sets of intertwined themes-secrecy and confession, asceticism and eroticism, constraint and freedom, and time and eternity.

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Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt to do just that. Where prior interpreters have been inclined either to defend or to criticize Augustine's views, Virginia Burrus, Mark Jordan, and Karmen MacKendrick set out both to seduce and to be seduced by his text.Often ambivalent but always passionately engaged, their readings of the Confessions center on four sets of intertwined themes-secrecy and confession, asceticism and eroticism, constraint and freedom, and time and eternity.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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