Kim Paffenroth is professor of religious studies and the director of the Honors Program at Iona College.Maggie Ann Labinski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University.

“The essays in this volume demonstrate how Augustine stands uniquely poised today to navigate contemporary issues in gender and sexuality. They frequently challenge consensus views about the theologian by returning to the original Latin sources, uncovering surprising elements previous scholarship has missed.”

• Part I. Desire and the PassionsChapter 1. Patricia Grosse Brewer – Sex and Love in the World that WasChapter 2. Richard A. Lee, Jr. – The Effectivity of Women in Augustine’s Confessions: The Erasure of Agency and the Regulation of DesireChapter 3. Eileen C. Sweeney – The Intersection of Gender and the Emotions: Concupiscence and its DiscontentsPart II. Sex and MarriageChapter 4. Julia Kelto Lillis – Augustine and Anatomical Virginity: The Problem of Double IntegrityChapter 5. Willemein Otten – Between Exegesis and Naturalization: Gender and Creation in AugustinePart III. Language, Speech, and ExegesisChapter 6. Jennifer Hockenbery – Beyond God the Father: Augustine’s Feminine Images of God and His Concerns for Human WomenChapter 7. Carol Harrison – Women’s Talk: Silent Voices and Inarticulate Cries – Augustine on Conceiving and Giving Birth to the WordChapter 8. Karmen MacKendrick – Variations on EvePart IV. Education and CommunityChapter 9. Maggie Ann Labinski – Promise and PerilChapter 10. Daniel Jean Perrier – Augustine’s Confessions and Monstrous RecognitionChapter 11. Anne-Marie Schultz and Michael R. Whitenton – Finding an Ally in Augustine: Augustine, Feminism, and Contemporary Reconsiderations of Gender

Kim Paffenroth is professor of religious studies and the director of the Honors Program at Iona College.Maggie Ann Labinski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University.

“The essays in this volume demonstrate how Augustine stands uniquely poised today to navigate contemporary issues in gender and sexuality. They frequently challenge consensus views about the theologian by returning to the original Latin sources, uncovering surprising elements previous scholarship has missed.”

• Part I. Desire and the PassionsChapter 1. Patricia Grosse Brewer – Sex and Love in the World that WasChapter 2. Richard A. Lee, Jr. – The Effectivity of Women in Augustine’s Confessions: The Erasure of Agency and the Regulation of DesireChapter 3. Eileen C. Sweeney – The Intersection of Gender and the Emotions: Concupiscence and its DiscontentsPart II. Sex and MarriageChapter 4. Julia Kelto Lillis – Augustine and Anatomical Virginity: The Problem of Double IntegrityChapter 5. Willemein Otten – Between Exegesis and Naturalization: Gender and Creation in AugustinePart III. Language, Speech, and ExegesisChapter 6. Jennifer Hockenbery – Beyond God the Father: Augustine’s Feminine Images of God and His Concerns for Human WomenChapter 7. Carol Harrison – Women’s Talk: Silent Voices and Inarticulate Cries – Augustine on Conceiving and Giving Birth to the WordChapter 8. Karmen MacKendrick – Variations on EvePart IV. Education and CommunityChapter 9. Maggie Ann Labinski – Promise and PerilChapter 10. Daniel Jean Perrier – Augustine’s Confessions and Monstrous RecognitionChapter 11. Anne-Marie Schultz and Michael R. Whitenton – Finding an Ally in Augustine: Augustine, Feminism, and Contemporary Reconsiderations of Gender

Kim Paffenroth is professor of religious studies and the director of the Honors Program at Iona College.Maggie Ann Labinski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University.

“The essays in this volume demonstrate how Augustine stands uniquely poised today to navigate contemporary issues in gender and sexuality. They frequently challenge consensus views about the theologian by returning to the original Latin sources, uncovering surprising elements previous scholarship has missed.”

• Part I. Desire and the PassionsChapter 1. Patricia Grosse Brewer – Sex and Love in the World that WasChapter 2. Richard A. Lee, Jr. – The Effectivity of Women in Augustine’s Confessions: The Erasure of Agency and the Regulation of DesireChapter 3. Eileen C. Sweeney – The Intersection of Gender and the Emotions: Concupiscence and its DiscontentsPart II. Sex and MarriageChapter 4. Julia Kelto Lillis – Augustine and Anatomical Virginity: The Problem of Double IntegrityChapter 5. Willemein Otten – Between Exegesis and Naturalization: Gender and Creation in AugustinePart III. Language, Speech, and ExegesisChapter 6. Jennifer Hockenbery – Beyond God the Father: Augustine’s Feminine Images of God and His Concerns for Human WomenChapter 7. Carol Harrison – Women’s Talk: Silent Voices and Inarticulate Cries – Augustine on Conceiving and Giving Birth to the WordChapter 8. Karmen MacKendrick – Variations on EvePart IV. Education and CommunityChapter 9. Maggie Ann Labinski – Promise and PerilChapter 10. Daniel Jean Perrier – Augustine’s Confessions and Monstrous RecognitionChapter 11. Anne-Marie Schultz and Michael R. Whitenton – Finding an Ally in Augustine: Augustine, Feminism, and Contemporary Reconsiderations of Gender