Desires in Paradise: an interpretative study of Augustine's City of God 14

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Preliminaries -- Introduction -- The Two Cities -- The Flesh is Not Bad -- Christian Vindication of Emotions -- The Fall and ‘Spontaneous’ Love -- The Disobedience of the Genitals -- Sex in Paradise -- The Two Loves -- Conclusion -- Back Matter --...

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Published in:Augustinus - Werk und Wirkung
Subtitles:Desires in Paradise: an interpretative study of Augustine's City of God 14
Main Author: Trettel, Adam (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Paderborn Ferdinand Schöningh [2019]
In: Augustinus - Werk und Wirkung (Band 8)
Series/Journal:Augustinus - Werk und Wirkung Band 8
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430, De civitate dei / Paradise
Further subjects:B Sex in the Bible
B Thesis
B Fall of man
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Summary:Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Preliminaries -- Introduction -- The Two Cities -- The Flesh is Not Bad -- Christian Vindication of Emotions -- The Fall and ‘Spontaneous’ Love -- The Disobedience of the Genitals -- Sex in Paradise -- The Two Loves -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Works Cited -- Index.
For Augustine, the pre-Fall Paradise was a life of tranquil love and joy. The post- Fall world is marked by loss of control over our bodies and emotions. But what exactly happened in the Fall, and why? How does desire relate to man’s disobedience, and is there any sense in which we can recover what Adam and Eve have lost? In treating City 14 as an integral whole, this study explores Augustine’s critiques of the Manichean and Platonist positions that the body is bad or evil, and discusses his biblical doctrine of emotions in light of the two-cities theme. The entire study concerns topics germane to the paradisal situation: the theme of the Primal Fall and the will being ‘spontaneous’, the exploration of the disobedience of the genitals in all forms of sex, including married life, and the workings of Adam and Eve’s hypothetical sexual experience in the pre-Fall world
Item Description:"This is a slightly revised version of my doctoral thesis, which was passed in December 2017 at the University of Edinburgh" (Acknowledgements)
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 213-223
ISBN:3657792538
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.30965/9783657792535