God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle AgesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 14/01/2016 - 464 páginas Contrary to popular belief, the medieval religious imagination did not restrict itself to masculine images of God but envisaged the divine in multiple forms. In fact, the God of medieval Christendom was the Father of only one Son but many daughters—including Lady Philosophy, Lady Love, Dame Nature, and Eternal Wisdom. God and the Goddesses is a study in medieval imaginative theology, examining the numerous daughters of God who appear in allegorical poems, theological fictions, and the visions of holy women. We have tended to understand these deities as mere personifications and poetic figures, but that, Barbara Newman contends, is a mistake. These goddesses are neither pagan survivals nor versions of the Great Goddess constructed in archetypal psychology, but distinctive creations of the Christian imagination. As emanations of the Divine, mediators between God and the cosmos, embodied universals, and ravishing objects of identification and desire, medieval goddesses transformed and deepened Christendom's concept of God, introducing religious possibilities beyond the ambit of scholastic theology and bringing them to vibrant imaginative life. |
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... Church Christine and the Female Trinity 3 IO 12 14 19 Vision , Imagination , and Belief Why Goddesses ? 24 35 2. Natura ( I ) : Nature and Nature's God SI The Birth of Nature : Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia Nature's Fall and Lament ...
... Church that Francis was trying to reform . In her own discourse , Lady Poverty recounts the history of that institution , especially of the religious orders , as a never - ending cycle of corruption and renewal . Her sister Persecution ...
... Church , which implicitly deserves those titles only insofar as it lives up to the demanding standard of fidelity pledged by the Franciscans . Although Francis himself had personified " Lady Holy Poverty " in his own writings , 23 the ...
... Church absolutely had to accommodate , since she alone appears in the canonical Scriptures.35 Lady Poverty could be represented as Christ's bride , Lady Love as God's mistress ( or dominatrix ) . But Eternal Wisdom , ever since John's ...
... Church About a decade after Henry Suso redacted his Life , a vagabond cleric in England began to revise and amplify the religious poem that would consti- tute his life's work . The Vision of Piers Plowman has always been an elusive text ...
Índice
The Thirteenth Century | 151 |
Hadewijchs Stanzaic Poems | 169 |
Dante Beatrice and lamor che move il sole | 181 |
Sapientia The Goddess Incarnate | 190 |
Poised Between Christ and Mary | 194 |
Henry Suso and His Legacy | 206 |
Julian of Norwich | 222 |
The Alchemical Virgin | 234 |
Natura I Nature and Natures God | 51 |
Bernard Silvestriss Cosmographia | 55 |
De planctu Naturae | 66 |
Anticlaudianus | 73 |
Nature or Natures God? | 86 |
Natura II Goddess of the Normative | 90 |
Ganymede and Helen and Natures Grammar | 91 |
From Alan of Lille to Jean de Meun | 97 |
Chaucers Parlement of Fowles | 111 |
Christines Revisionist Myths | 115 |
Nature Nurture Silence | 122 |
The Realm of the Natural | 134 |
Love Divine All Loves Excelling | 138 |
The Twelfth Century | 140 |
Maria Holy Trinity as Holy Family | 245 |
The Trinity as a Family | 247 |
The Marian Trinity in Art | 254 |
The Lability of Female Roles | 273 |
The Invention of the Holy Family | 283 |
Goddesses and the One God | 291 |
Imaginative Theology | 294 |
The Gender of God and the Limits of Intolerance | 304 |
Medieval Christianity as an Inclusive Monotheism | 317 |
List of Abbreviations | 329 |
Notes | 331 |
Works Cited | 409 |
Index | 437 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages Barbara Newman Pré-visualização limitada - 2005 |
God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages Barbara Newman Pré-visualização limitada - 2016 |
God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages Barbara Newman Visualização de excertos - 2005 |
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