Augustine's Theology of Sex, Gender, and the Passions

In this lecture, we explore Augustine's theology of sex, gender, and the passions and refute the feminist interpretation of Augustine as a sexist and misogynistic theologian. On the contrary, though he is a product of his time, he has some rather remarkable moments of female superiority and importance scattered in his writings, especially as it relates to his wife in The Confessions, his mother Monica, Lucretia, and Dido.
0:-1:58 - Introduction
1:58-9:41 - Love, Sex, and Marriage
9:41-22:13 - Una and Women of the Confessions
22:13-30:30 - Love, Virtue, and the Goodness of the Passions
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a political philosopher, literary critic, and classicist. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, politics, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).
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