{"product_id":"veiled-desire-augustine-on-women","title":"Veiled Desire: Augustine on Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eAugustine 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 Churchs 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 the women close to him  in particular his mother  Monica  and the woman with whom he lived for many years and who was the mother of his child. Power illustrates how  once Augustine became a Christian bishop  he never again had a close relationship with a woman  although many women came under his pastoral care. As Augustine debated whether or not women are made in the image of God  and as he developed an increasingly idealized picture of the place of the Virgin Mary  Augustines own cultural and psychological circumstances must have helped shape his conclusions. Power employs insights drawn from psychology  anthropology and feminist theory  as well as theology  to put Augustine in a new and revealing setting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44977791959093,"sku":"ByrdShop_0826409342","price":51.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780826409348.jpg?v=1770756367","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/veiled-desire-augustine-on-women","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}