Category: Comparative Essay

• February 17, 2021

  The Sex Life of Saint Augustine: Spiritual Ecstasy and Sierra Simone’s Priest

  

  This is more of an heretical sermon on the novel than anything else! Beware of spoilers for the entire book. This essay starts off as a review of Priest, discusses an historical example of sexuality and salvation in Augustine’s confessions, contrasts that with the idea of sex as spiritual transcendence in the novel (along with…