Veiled: Augustine on Women

by Kim Power

Augustine remains one of the most influential theologians in Western Christianity, but his attitudes to women and sex are said to lie at the heart of the modern Church's confusion on these issues.Kim Power sets out what Augustine actually wrote about women, and what the consequences of his attitudes have been. She looks at the religious, philosophical and biological assumptions Augustine shared with all his contemporaries, then at the influence of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826409342
• ISBN13: 9780826409348
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"