Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary"Devoting different sections of the book to each of the various roles Mary has assumed - Virgin, Queen, Bride, Mother, Intercessor - and drawing on official dogma, folk legend, art, history, literature and psychology, the author of Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances from the first century to the present day, and why, for all their beauty and power (and indeed because of them), the legends of Virgin Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority"--Google books description |
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Page 129
... Bernard uncovers a mystical system by which the Christian is trans- figured by love . 15 Christ is the lover of the Canticle , his bride sometimes the Church , sometimes the individual soul , sometimes the monks of Clairvaux , his ...
... Bernard uncovers a mystical system by which the Christian is trans- figured by love . 15 Christ is the lover of the Canticle , his bride sometimes the Church , sometimes the individual soul , sometimes the monks of Clairvaux , his ...
Page 197
... Bernard developed this same element of surprise in his invocations of Christ . But , with Cistercian starkness , Bernard tempered the imagery . No broody hen for him , but the naked embrace of the bloody body of the crucified God ...
... Bernard developed this same element of surprise in his invocations of Christ . But , with Cistercian starkness , Bernard tempered the imagery . No broody hen for him , but the naked embrace of the bloody body of the crucified God ...
Page 376
... Bernard of Clairvaux , Life and Works of Saint Bernard , Abbot of Clairvaux , ed . Dom John Mabillon , trans . Samuel J. Fales . Vol . 4 , Cantica Canti- carum , eighty - six sermons on the Song of Songs . 15. See Etienne Gilson , The ...
... Bernard of Clairvaux , Life and Works of Saint Bernard , Abbot of Clairvaux , ed . Dom John Mabillon , trans . Samuel J. Fales . Vol . 4 , Cantica Canti- carum , eighty - six sermons on the Song of Songs . 15. See Etienne Gilson , The ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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