Curious piece in the New Yorker magazine by Harvard Prof Stephen Greenblatt, basically a Shakespeare scholar I thought, suggesting we might all be living in a much more sex-positive world (and therefore also possibly less pedohysterical?) if St Augustine's mother hadn't forced him to dump the woman he loved (who was also the mother of his child). I am biased against any theories that cast the vicissitudes of individual life stories into world historical roles -- I figure world events are conditioned by larger forces and that these shape roles for individuals which someone would have filled if the person who in fact filled them had somehow not existed -- but I would be interested to know what some of our contributors here who think more deeply about Christianity than I do might make of this piece. hugzu ;-p ![]() [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |