02510nam 2200565Ia 450 991096742880332120250411160458.09780823231959082323195X9781441644756144164475X9780823248476082324847X(CKB)3710000001409191(MiAaPQ)EBC3239511(Au-PeEL)EBL3239511(CaPaEBR)ebr10376552(OCoLC)923763169(EXLCZ)99371000000140919120091229d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSeducing Augustine bodies, desires, confessions /Virginia Burrus, Mark D. Jordan, and Karmen MacKendrick1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20101 online resourceDescription based upon print version of record.9780823231935 0823231933 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Seducing AugustineOn the Edge of FreedomSexReligious aspectsChristianitySexReligious aspectsChristianity.270.2092Burrus Virginia729834Jordan Mark D971804MacKendrick Karmen1962-1116717MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967428803321Seducing Augustine4367055UNINA