The Virgin Mary, monotheism, and sacrifice / Cleo McNelly Kearns.

By:

Kearns, Cleo McNelly, 1943-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 356 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780511409837
0511409834
0521871565
9780521871563
051140929X
9780511409295
9780511407932
0511407939
9786611717049
6611717048
9780511499180
0511499183
9781107407817
1107407818
1107180368
9781107180369
1281717045
9781281717047
0511408722
9780511408724

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Virgin Mary, monotheism, and sacrifice.DDC classification:

232.91 22

LOC classification:

BT603 .K43 2008eb

Other classification:

11.60

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Contents:

Theories of sacrifice -- Mary, motherhood and sacrifice in the Gospels -- Mary and priesthood.

Summary: The Virgin Mary plays a major - although often paradoxical - role in the incarnation and crucifixion and in the ecclesiastical structure of Christianity. This role is shaped by sacrifice as understood in terms of the religious patrimony of ancient Israel and as refigured in the new Christian and Islamic paradigms arising from it. Here the offering up of a son is a frequently occurring motif, one in which fathers and mothers play an emotionally fraught, anthropologically conditioned and theologically significant role. Like such figures as Abraham and Sarah in the Hebrew Bible, Mary's relationship to sacrifice has profound implications not only for Christian theology, but for later developments in monotheism, including the role of women and gender in creating and sustaining religious identities, the emergence of competing definitions of orthodoxy, and the institution in some traditions of a masculine priesthood and religious hierarchy.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theories of sacrifice -- Mary, motherhood and sacrifice in the Gospels -- Mary and priesthood.

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The Virgin Mary plays a major - although often paradoxical - role in the incarnation and crucifixion and in the ecclesiastical structure of Christianity. This role is shaped by sacrifice as understood in terms of the religious patrimony of ancient Israel and as refigured in the new Christian and Islamic paradigms arising from it. Here the offering up of a son is a frequently occurring motif, one in which fathers and mothers play an emotionally fraught, anthropologically conditioned and theologically significant role. Like such figures as Abraham and Sarah in the Hebrew Bible, Mary's relationship to sacrifice has profound implications not only for Christian theology, but for later developments in monotheism, including the role of women and gender in creating and sustaining religious identities, the emergence of competing definitions of orthodoxy, and the institution in some traditions of a masculine priesthood and religious hierarchy.

English.

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