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God's Mother, Eve's Advocate

[Paperback]

by Tina Beattie

Author
Tina Beattie
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published
December 2002

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The object of this book on the theology of woman is to discern the place of the female body in the Christian story of salvation, and this is done from the heart of Christian stylizations of the female - the figures of Mary and Eve. Beattie has pursued her subject with the aid of French psychoanalytic feminism. These writers are preoccupied, as is Catholic theology, with questions of language and symbolism. But Beattie puts herself at odds with neo-orthodoxy and feminist liberal theology, believing that theologians like von Balthasar depart from the best patristic tradition of Marian theology to disastrous effect. Nor does she offer solace to the Marina Warners of this world in a book which is strong in defence of classical Marian theology. She defends with passion and theological insight not only the virgin birth, the immaculate conception and the assumption but also the perpetual virginity of Mary. Virginal desire, according to Beattie, need not be seen negatively but as an affirmation of the integrity of women's desire before God, in a way not dependent on the phallus nor reducible to genitality.