No, argues this excellent talk from 1994:Â http://www.its.caltech.edu/~nmcenter/women-cp/augustin.html. I agree. He was a man of his time and fallible, and certainly couldn’t have conceived of women as the equals of men in the City of Man. Â But he undoubtedly saw men and women as equal in the City of God. Â And, being the son of the indomitable Saint Monica, it is inconceivable to me that he would not have respected women’s intellect and moral strength. Â That’s why I had to give him a strong, smart, spiritually indomitable mate in The Saint’s Mistress.
Was Saint Augustine an anti-feminist?
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