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 56
... flesh , " of which " adultery , fornica- tion , uncleanness and lasciviousness " lead the catalogue of sins ( Galatians 5:19 ) —an accurate reflection of Greco - Jewish morality and taboo . The Apocalypse of John strengthened the ...
... flesh , " of which " adultery , fornica- tion , uncleanness and lasciviousness " lead the catalogue of sins ( Galatians 5:19 ) —an accurate reflection of Greco - Jewish morality and taboo . The Apocalypse of John strengthened the ...
Page 57
... flesh and the spirit , the female sex was firmly placed on the side of the flesh . For as childbirth was woman's special function , and its pangs the special penalty decreed by God after the Fall , and as the child she bore in her womb ...
... flesh and the spirit , the female sex was firmly placed on the side of the flesh . For as childbirth was woman's special function , and its pangs the special penalty decreed by God after the Fall , and as the child she bore in her womb ...
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... flesh is not able to gaze . . . . " The apostles then beseech Jesus that all who commemorate his virgin mother shall have an answer to their prayers . This early story of the Virgin's last days on earth never mentions her death : she is ...
... flesh is not able to gaze . . . . " The apostles then beseech Jesus that all who commemorate his virgin mother shall have an answer to their prayers . This early story of the Virgin's last days on earth never mentions her death : she is ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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