TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burrus,Virginia
AU  - Jordan,Mark
AU  - MacKendrick,Karmen
TI  - Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions
SN  - 9780823231959
AV  - BR65.A62 -- B85 2010eb 
U1  - 270.2092 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - US
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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