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Seducing Augustine

Bodies, Desires, Confessions

Seducing Augustine( )
Author: Burrus, Virginia
Jordan, Mark D.
MacKendrick, Karmen
ISBN:978-0-8232-3194-2
Publication Date:Apr 2010
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $39.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Religious
Religion / Christian Living / Love & Marriage
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.928 x 8.892 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:0.612 Pounds



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