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- Title
2010 NAPS Presidential Address "Fleeing the Uxorious Kingdom": Augustine's Queer Theology of Marriage.
- Authors
BURRUS, VIRGINIA
- Abstract
The article presents an examination of St. Augustine's queer theology of marriage. The author discusses Augustine's story of the healing of Innocent of Carthage who suffered from numerous and complicated rectal fistulae in which Augustine claims to have personally witnessed the miracle. The author notes that readers of the narration quickly learn that the particular fistula which requires divine intervention lay so revealed that the doctors could not touch it. The author adds that Augustine's story ultimately focuses on cutting and pain, fear and the desire for healing, and the gaping interiority of flesh.
- Subjects
QUEER theology; RELIGION &; marriage; AUGUSTINE, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430; DOCTRINAL theology; SPIRITUAL healing; MIRACLES
- Publication
Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2011, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1067-6341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/earl.2011.0002