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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... Testament itself was out of joint with the embattled desires and ideas of Christians for whom the virgin birth was a necessary precondition of Christ's divinity . This stemmed from a mytho- logical tradition that will be examined in ...
... Testament itself was out of joint with the embattled desires and ideas of Christians for whom the virgin birth was a necessary precondition of Christ's divinity . This stemmed from a mytho- logical tradition that will be examined in ...
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... Testament was one unbroken chain of prophecy that fore- told it . The burning bush that Moses saw was , like Mary , inflamed with the spirit of God and yet not consumed by the flames , as she was filled with the fires of the Holy Ghost ...
... Testament was one unbroken chain of prophecy that fore- told it . The burning bush that Moses saw was , like Mary , inflamed with the spirit of God and yet not consumed by the flames , as she was filled with the fires of the Holy Ghost ...
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... Testament , ” in H. Du Manoir de Juaye : Maria : Études sur La Sainte Vierge ( Paris 1949– ) , 6:20 . 21. Lumen Gentium , chap . VIII , pt . III , para . 61. Walter Abbott and Joseph Gal- lagher , The Documents of Vatican Two ( New York ...
... Testament , ” in H. Du Manoir de Juaye : Maria : Études sur La Sainte Vierge ( Paris 1949– ) , 6:20 . 21. Lumen Gentium , chap . VIII , pt . III , para . 61. Walter Abbott and Joseph Gal- lagher , The Documents of Vatican Two ( New York ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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