{"title":"Shame in the context of sin : Augustine on the feeling of shame in De Civitate Dei","authors":"Tianyue Wu","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022835","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The topic of shame has attracted little attention in Augustinian scholarship. This article will provide a detailed analysis of Augustine's case studies of Lucretia's rape and Adam's act of covering himself after the Fall in De ciuitate Dei. It will be argued that Augustine's subtle depiction of shame-feeling in the context of guilt and sin offers us an illuminating interpretation of shame and its intimate relation to personal identity.","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"2 1","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2007-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022835","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The topic of shame has attracted little attention in Augustinian scholarship. This article will provide a detailed analysis of Augustine's case studies of Lucretia's rape and Adam's act of covering himself after the Fall in De ciuitate Dei. It will be argued that Augustine's subtle depiction of shame-feeling in the context of guilt and sin offers us an illuminating interpretation of shame and its intimate relation to personal identity.
期刊介绍:
The Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales / Forschungen zur Theologie und Philosophie des Mittelalters (formerly Recherches de Théologie Ancienne et Médiévale of the Abbaye Mont César) provides a forum for original, high-quality research on all aspects of theology and philosophy from Augustine and the Early Middle Ages up to late scholasticism. Recent articles have included highly focused studies on particular facets of the medieval philosophical or theological tradition, broader reconsiderations of received views in the history of medieval theology and philosophy, and editions of texts and manuscript studies.