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Rape and Its Aftermath in Augustine's "City of God"- [e-book]
Rape and Its Aftermath in Augustine's "City of God"- [e-book]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문
- ISBN
- 9781339971117
- 서명/저자
- Rape and Its Aftermath in Augustines City of God - [e-book]
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2016
- 형태사항
- 244 p
- 주기사항
- Adviser: Ellen Charry.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - Princeton Theological Seminary, 2016.
- 초록/해제
- 요약 : This dissertation, "Rape and Its Aftermath in Augustine's City of God," explicates Augustine's revision of traditional virtue narratives and their concomitant societal values and expectations. I give particular attention to the moral (in)coherence of certain facets of the Roman and Roman Christian virtue traditions. To account for the distinctiveness of Augustine's moral imagination, I offer a reading of Augustine that contextualizes his response to rape with reference to other Latin Christian theologians (among others, Tertullian, Ambrose, Jerome, and Julian of Eclanum), his Roman interlocutors (including Livy, Virgil, Cicero, Seneca, and Quintilian), and central scriptural passages (the decalogue, Susanna and the Elders, and the dual love commandments). Late ancient communities, Christian and non-Christian, habituated women through the use of exempla to believe that, in anticipation and aftermath of rape, their primary recourse for protecting or attesting to their chastity was death, whether at their own hands or at the hands of their fathers and brothers. I re-read Augustine's rendering of the story of the exemplary Roman matron Lucretia, who killed herself in the aftermath of rape. I argue that through his critical engagement with this story, Augustine affirms the choice of women who survived rape in the sack of Rome to continue living, that is, who have refused to kill themselves. He seeks, furthermore, to persuade the communities of which these women are now a part that sexual violence is distinct from adultery and other forms of illicit sex; it is better understood as a form of torture. Society must therefore reimagine its understanding of a faithful response to rape -- rather than suicide, desiring life is in accordance with God's law. Augustine sets out to render shared life after rape not only imaginable but also desirable, both for these women and for his elite male readership. This project asks how Augustine came to imagine such an unprecedented argument regarding how women and society respond to rape. This dissertation challenges contemporary readers to envision the (re)constitution of shamed members of society within communities of support that conduce to flourishing.
- 기타 저자
- Princeton Theological Seminary Theology
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- 나의폴더
- 우선정리요청
등록번호 | 청구기호 | 소장처 | 대출가능여부 | 대출정보 |
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T0011309 | DT Ph.D. | 전자화일 | 열람만 가능 |
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