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He frames City of God as an ancestral blueprint for the Catholic Church and introduces Augustine's rape argument as an imperial response to chastity, suicide, and population order.
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Chastity
He frames City of God as an ancestral blueprint for the Catholic Church and introduces Augustine's rape argument as an imperial response to chastity, suicide, and population order.
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Jiang says Roman memory honors Lucretia's suicide as the act that gives birth to the Roman Republic, but Augustine reframes it as shame, pride, and ego.
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"He's saying that God is not guilty. In fact, first of all, we didn't make a mistake. We are the mistake, all right? We..."
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"...is kill themselves. Why? Because the Christian faith taught them that chastity was a sin. That chastity was very important, OK? And if you're..."
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"...was a woman. And Lucretia was famous in Rome for her chastity, for her virtue. So he thought it would be fun to rape..."
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"...she felt ashamed. Not to the high value she set on chastity. She was ashamed of another's foul deed committed on her, even though..."
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"...Christian women do not kill themselves. They have the glory of chastity within them, the testimony of their conscience. They have this in the..."
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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