Augustine And Gender

Author : Kim Paffenroth,Maggie Ann Labinski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666954869

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Augustine and Gender by Kim Paffenroth,Maggie Ann Labinski Pdf

The relationship between Augustine of Hippo and the subject of gender raises important questions. Augustine and Gender address these issues head-on. This volume offers original interpretations of the many ways that gender appears throughout Augustine’s thought and works. Contributions draw from a wide range of sources including Augustine’s sermons, letters, treatises, and dialogues. Readers will discover detailed analyses about the nature of desire and emotion, the politics of sex and marriage, the possibilities of human speech and exegesis, and the hope of education and community. In addition, this book is a persuasive demonstration of the benefits of bringing together Augustinian scholars with the most pressing concerns of the present.

Author : Judith Chelius Stark
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271046907

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Feminist Interpretations of Augustine by Judith Chelius Stark Pdf

Author : Kim Power
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019218754

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Veiled Desire by Kim Power Pdf

The author discusses Augustine's views on women, particularly women within Christian theology. The author also addresses how Augustine's views were based on his cultural and psychological circumstances, and how his ideas on and attitudes towards women changed.

Author : Theresa Tinkle
Publisher : New Middle Ages
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000127144602

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Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis by Theresa Tinkle Pdf

Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis analyzes the nexus of gender and power in biblical commentaries from the fifth to the fifteenth century, focusing on crucial moments in the development of exegesis. The argument pursues the literary trope of the woman on top through major literary-exegetical works: Augustine’s Confessions, Jerome’s Against Jovinian, the Fleury Slaughter of Innocents, and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue. Theresa Tinkle reveals how the authoritative woman in these works can signify either a troubling disruption of ordained social order, or an admirable inversion of order that sets the Church apart from dominant culture. Establishing a feminist-historicist perspective, this book situates exegesis in history and exposes the cultural pressures behind exegetes’ decision making.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081320867X

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St. Augustine on Marriage and Sexuality by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Augustine of Hippo (b. A.D. 354) is considered the single most influential theologian in the history of the Church in the West. Among his many contributions, Augustine developed a sexual ethic that became decisive for all later teachings in the Christian West on issues of marriage, reproduction, and sexuality. Some of the most significant and representative passages on marriage and sexuality from his works are presented here. They recount Augustine's own struggle with sexuality, and stress the important role it played in his conversion to Christianity as well as its influence on his theological principles later in life. The passages in this collection are divided into four chapters which document the chronological development of Augustine's sexual ethic. The first chapter includes passages that pertain to Augustine's own life and illustrate some of his positive and negative models of marital relation. The second chapter recounts Augustine's responses to the Manichean teachings on the body, reproduction, and marriage, mostly from his early years as a Christian. The third chapter contains passages marking Augustine's reaction to the ascetic debates within late fourth-century Latin Christianity. And, finally, the fourth chapter illustrates Augustine's mature sexual and marital ethic, which he elaborated in the midst of--and in reaction to--arguments with Pelagian writers. In a separate introduction, Elizabeth Clark sets the development of Augustine's thought within the context of his own intellectual biography and views it against the background of related issues and movements in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, such as Manichaeism, Jovinianism, and Pelagianism. The selections she presents here offer a comprehensive and uncommonly well-balanced picture of Augustine and his work. St. Augustine on Marriage and Sexuality is the first in a projected series of volumes on various themes found in the writings of the church fathers. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Elizabeth Clark is John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion at Duke University. She is a past president of the American Academy of Religion and the North American Patristic Society, and a member of the editoral board of the Fathers of the Church series.

Author : Megan K. DeFranza
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802869821

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Sex Difference in Christian Theology by Megan K. DeFranza Pdf

Charts a faithful theological middle coursethrough complex sexual issuesHow different are men and women? When does it matter to us -- or to God? Are male and female the only two options? In SexDifference in Christian Theology Megan DeFranza explores such questions in light of the Bible, theology, and science.Many Christians, entrenc

Author : Penelope Deutscher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134770953

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Yielding Gender by Penelope Deutscher Pdf

Traditional accounts of the feminist history of philosophy have viewed reason as associated with masculinity and subsequent debates have been framed by this assumption. Yet recent debates in deconstruction have shown that gender has never been a stable matter. In the history of philosophy 'female' and 'woman' are full of ambiguity. What does deconstruction have to offer feminist criticism of the history of philosophy? Yielding Gender explores this question by examining three crucial areas; the issue of gender as 'troubled'; deconstruction; and feminist criticism of the history of philosophy. The first part of the book discusses the work of Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and contemporary French feminist philosophy including key figures such as Luce Irigiray. Particular attention is given to the possibilities offered by deconstruction for understanding the history of philosophy. The second part considers and then challenges feminist interpretations of some key figures in the history of philosophy. Penelope Deutscher sketches how Rousseau, St. Augustine and Simone de Beauvoir have described gender and argues that their readings of gender are in fact empowered by gender's own contradiction and instability rather than limited by it.

Author : Magnus Ankarsjö
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786483032

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William Blake and Gender by Magnus Ankarsjö Pdf

The closing years of the eighteenth century were the particular domain of literary radicals whose work challenged ideas on gender and sexuality. During this transitional period, the poetry of William Blake reflected the changing mores of society as well as his own developing notions of gender. This work presents an in-depth exploration of gender issues in Blake’s three epic poems, The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. The opening chapter discusses basic concepts such as notions of apocalypse, utopia and gender, all essential to the author’s reading of Blake. Background regarding the literary atmosphere of the time, which included influence from the tradition of dissent, English Jacobinism and early feminism, is also included, effectively setting the context for Blake’s work. The book then examines the poems in chronological order. It concentrates particularly on male and female activity within each work (refuting the common assumption that Blake was anti-feminist) while exploring the symbolism of the poetry. Blake’s repeated theme of the struggle between the sexes receives special emphasis, as does the progress of his gender vision through the three poems.

Author : Gillian Clark
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000950007

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Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity by Gillian Clark Pdf

What does it mean to say that a human being is body and soul, and how does each affect the other? Late antique philosophers, Christians included, asked these central questions. The papers collected here explore their answers, and use those answers to ask further questions, reading Iamblichus, Porphyry, Augustine and others in their social and intellectual context. Among the topics dealt with are the following. Humans are mortal rational beings, so how does the mortal body affect the rational soul? The body needs food: what foods are best for the soul, and is it right to eat animal foods if animals are less rational than humans? The body is gendered for reproduction: are reason and the soul also gendered? Ascetic lifestyles may free our bodies from the limitations of gender and desire, so that our souls are free to reconnect with the divine; but this need must be balanced with the claims of family and society. Philosophers asked whether life in the body is exile for the soul; Christians defended their claim that body as well as soul would live after death, and even the smallest fragment of a martyr's body is proof of resurrection.

Author : Rhonda L McDaniel
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580443104

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The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints by Rhonda L McDaniel Pdf

In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a "third gender" by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism and then turns to creating a historical and theological cultural context within which to locate an interpretation of Aelfric's portrayals of male and female saints.

Author : Linn Marie Tonstad
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498218801

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Queer Theology by Linn Marie Tonstad Pdf

What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer Theology offers a readable introduction to a difficult debate. Summarizing the various apologetic arguments for the inclusion of queer people in Christianity, Tonstad moves beyond inclusion to argue for a queer theology that builds on the interconnection of theology with sex and money. Thoroughly grounded in queer theory as well as in Christian theology, Queer Theology grapples with the fundamental challenges of the body, sex, and death, as these are where queerness and Christianity find (and, maybe, lose) each other.

Author : University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). Women and Development Studies Project. Seminar
Publisher : Canoe Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9768125551

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Gender in Caribbean Development by University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). Women and Development Studies Project. Seminar Pdf

Contains 23 papers originally published in 1988 which discuss, inter alia, interdisciplinary research on models and theories of gender and development, historical perspectives of feminism, ideology and culture, and women's organization.

Author : Robert Dodaro,George Lawless
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134636693

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Augustine and His Critics by Robert Dodaro,George Lawless Pdf

Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430) is arguably the most controversial Christian thinker in history. His positions on philosophical and theological concerns have been the subjects of intense scrutiny and criticism from his lifetime to the present. Augustine and his Critics gathers twelve specialists' responses to modern criticisms of his thought, covering: personal and religious freedom; the self and God; sexuality, gender and the body; spirituality; asceticism; cultural studies; and politics. Stimulating and insightful, the collection offers forceful arguments for neglected historical, philosophical and theological perspectives which are behind some of Augustine's most unpopular convictions.

Author : Stanimir Panayotov,Andra Jugănaru,Anastasia Theologou,István Perczel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003818809

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Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity by Stanimir Panayotov,Andra Jugănaru,Anastasia Theologou,István Perczel Pdf

Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in late antique history, philosophy, and theology, this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment. Bringing together gender studies, late antique philosophy, patristics, history of asceticism, and history of Indian philosophy, this interdisciplinary volume examines the notions of dis/embodiment and im/materiality in late antique and early Christian culture and thought. The book’s geographical scope extends beyond the ancient Mediterranean, providing comparative perspectives from Late Antiquity in the Near East and South Asia. It offers critical interpretations of late antique scholarly objects of inquiry, exploring close readings of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in their historical context. These fascinating studies engage scholars from different fields and research traditions with one another, and reveal both change and continuity in the perception and social role of gender, sexuality, body, and soul in this period. Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Classics, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as those working on late antique and early Christian history, philosophy, and theology.

Author : T. Fenster,C. Lees
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137079978

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Gender in Debate From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance by T. Fenster,C. Lees Pdf

Modern scholarship generally treats the "debate about women" (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic authors like Chaucer but truly begun by Christine de Pizan (1364-1429), and therefore primarily of English and French origin. That emphasis has obscured the ways in which both writers were participating in a much wider, much older cultural phenomenon with varied and intractable roots. Articles in this collection explore how gender is put into debate in Anglo-Saxon, German, Spanish and Italian cultures, and they re-examine French and Middle English debate literature. The collection is carefully planned to be accessible to students seeking an idea of the debate's motifs and contours while maintaining the high level of issue involvement necessary to commanding a more seasoned audience. Contributors include Pamela Benson, Alcuin Blamires, Margaret Franklin, Roberta Krueger, Clare Lees and Gillian Overing, Ann Matter, Karen Pratt, Helen Solterer, Julian Weiss, and Barbara Weissberger.