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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... Prayer is an emotional ex- perience that demands the totality of the self , as Claudius knew when he groaned : My words fly up , my thoughts remain below . Words without thoughts never to heaven go . ( Hamlet , Act III , Sc . 3 : 97-9 ) ...
... Prayer is an emotional ex- perience that demands the totality of the self , as Claudius knew when he groaned : My words fly up , my thoughts remain below . Words without thoughts never to heaven go . ( Hamlet , Act III , Sc . 3 : 97-9 ) ...
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... prayer , without the petition . It was only when the Lutherans criticized the medi- eval form of the Ave Maria that Catholics began including the implora- tion that now closes the prayer : " Pray for us sinners , now and at the hour of ...
... prayer , without the petition . It was only when the Lutherans criticized the medi- eval form of the Ave Maria that Catholics began including the implora- tion that now closes the prayer : " Pray for us sinners , now and at the hour of ...
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... prayers blended with the medieval symbolism of the rose , until the beads themselves were seen to be chaplets to crown ... prayer , therefore , often indicates an embattled mood among Catholics . When Alanus de Rupe popularized it at the ...
... prayers blended with the medieval symbolism of the rose , until the beads themselves were seen to be chaplets to crown ... prayer , therefore , often indicates an embattled mood among Catholics . When Alanus de Rupe popularized it at the ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
Copyright | |
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