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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... 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 ...
... Theology 294 The Gender of God and the Limits of Intolerance Medieval Christianity as an Inclusive Monotheism List of Abbreviations Notes 331 Works Cited 409 Index 437 329 194 206 254 273 304 317 Illustrations I.I. St. Francis marries ...
... of the Incarnation 5.2 . Virgin of the Sign 202 5.3 . Sapientia Regina , Bible of Saint - Martial 5.4 . Majestas Sapientiae 213 170 189 201 204 བ 21 5.5 . Sapientia magistra at the school of theology 5.6 List of Illustrations.
... theology 5.6 . The Disciple falls in love with Eternal Wisdom 5.7 . Sapientia and her three daughters 217 215 216 5.8 . Sapientia and the Disciple watch Christ carrying his cross 5.9 . Spiritual marriage with Sapientia 221 5.10 ...
... theology of glory , " whereas his mature theology of the cross focused on the human , masculine Jesus.34 But wherever Sophia might belong in the continuum of piety , she was one goddess whom the Church absolutely had to accommodate ...
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 |
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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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