Seducing Augustine : : Bodies, Desires, Confessions / / Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, Mark D. Jordan.
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 Augustin...
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