Feminist Interpretations of Augustine

Forsideomslag
Penn State Press, 2007 - 326 sider

Since the establishment of Christianity in the West as a major religious tradition, Augustine (354&–430 CE) has been considered a principal architect of the ways philosophy can be used for reasoning about faith. In particular, Augustine effected the joining of Platonism with Christian belief for the Middle Ages and beyond. The results of his enterprise continue to be felt, especially with regard to the contested topics of human embodiment, sexuality, and the nature and roles of women. As a result, few thinkers have been as problematic for feminists as he has been. He is the thinker that a number of feminists love to hate.

What do feminist thinkers make of this problematic legacy? These lively essays address that question and provide thoughtful arguments for the value of engaging Augustine&’s ideas and texts anew by using the well-established methodologies that feminists have developed over the last thirty years. Augustine and his legacy have much to answer for, but these essays show that the body of his work also has much to offer as feminists explore, challenge, and reframe his thinking while forging new paradigms for construing gender, power, and notions of divinity.

 

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Augustine Sexuality Gender and Women
47
Monica The Feminine Face of Christ
69
Augustines Rhetoric of the Feminine in the Confessions Woman as Mother Woman as Other
97
Confessing Monica
119
O Mother Where Art Thou? In Search of Saint Monnica
147
Not Nameless but Unnamed The Woman Torn from Augustines Side
167
Augustines Letters to Women
189
De cura feminarum Augustine the Bishop North African Women and the Development of a Theology of Female Nature
203
Augustine on Women In Gods Image but Less So
215
To Remember Self to Remember God Augustine on Sexuality Relationality and the Trinity
243
The Evanescence of Masculinity Deferral in Saint Augustines Confessions and Some Thoughts on Its Bearing on the SexGender Debate
281
To Aurelius Augustine from the Mother of His Son
301
Select Bibliography
303
Contributors
313
Index
317
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Side 28 - I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
Side 26 - For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it.

Om forfatteren (2007)

Judith Chelius Stark is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University.

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