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Mary

by Sarah Jane Boss

  • Hardback
  • 162 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

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For Christians exploring the role of Mary in faith

Challenges misconceptions about Mary's significance

You will gain a deeper understanding of femininity in faith

This book redefines Mary as a vital figure in Christian theology.

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In recent years Mary has stepped out of the closet of piety and devotion and become the subject of serious theological study and work. For too long Mary was an icon for the repression of women by a male dominated Church, but now Mary is seen as a vital theological symbol, a symbol of true femininity and true humanity for the Church and the modern world. Jung has argued that the Definition of the Doctrine of the Assumption was the most important religious event since the Reformation: the feminine principle has been absorbed into the Godhead. Yet amongst some modern Catholics, as well as most Protestant Christians, the Virgin Mary is still seen as someone who has a very small part to play in the drama of salvation and creation. In Mary, Sarah Jane Boss seeks to correct this view. She argues that Christian theology should conceive of the created order, both physical and spiritual, as sacred in the highest degree, and that this understanding is already implicit in traditions of Marian doctrine and devotion. Far from being peripheral this understanding of Mary is central to Christian doctrine.;It must underlie any attempt to answer the fundamental ethical questions of our age, namely that of the extent to which human beings are entitled to intervene in the natural order.

  • Author

    Sarah Jane Boss

  • Book Format

    hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    April 2004

  • Edition

    illustrated edition

  • Weight

    196g

  • Page Count

    162

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826457882

  • ISBN-10

    0826457886

  • Eden Code

    11675

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