Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin MaryKnopf, 1976 - 400 pages |
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... Incarnation.19 Jesus ' reply does not contradict or deny the woman's accolade , but rephrases it in a loftier and more Christian way in order to emphasize the spiritual motherhood of the Church , which is prefigured by his own mother ...
... Incarnation.19 Jesus ' reply does not contradict or deny the woman's accolade , but rephrases it in a loftier and more Christian way in order to emphasize the spiritual motherhood of the Church , which is prefigured by his own mother ...
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... Incarnation . In order to show that the Word was made flesh , early Christians fleshed out the bare paragraphs of the canonical Gospels . But the process was not a slow evolution and accre- tion ; for some scholars date the Book of ...
... Incarnation . In order to show that the Word was made flesh , early Christians fleshed out the bare paragraphs of the canonical Gospels . But the process was not a slow evolution and accre- tion ; for some scholars date the Book of ...
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... Incarnation and the Redemption ; just as God moulded Adam from new clay , so he had fashioned his son anew . Because Jesus did not de- scend to earth but was born of a woman , it was crucial that her clay too should be pristine and ...
... Incarnation and the Redemption ; just as God moulded Adam from new clay , so he had fashioned his son anew . Because Jesus did not de- scend to earth but was born of a woman , it was crucial that her clay too should be pristine and ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 1 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
Copyright | |
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