Virgin Goddess - 9789004136397
Un libro in lingua di Stephen Benko edito da Brill Academic Pub, 2003
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The contemporary search for the feminine face of God is requiring a re-examination of the relationship of Christianity to the pagan world in which it came to birth. Stephen Benko approaches this study as both an historian and a Christian believer. Inquiring into extra-biblical sources of Marian piety, belief and doctrine, he proposes 'that there is a direct line, unbroken and clearly discernible, from the goddess-cults of the ancients to the reverence paid and eventually the cult accorded to the Virgin Mary.' Chapter by chapter he seeks to establish his conclusion that 'in Mariology the Christian genius preserved and transformed some of the best and noblest ideas that paganism developed. Rather than being a 'regression' into Paganism, Mariology is a progression toward a clearer and better understanding of the feminine aspect of the divine and the role of the female in the history of salvation.'
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Virgin Goddess
- Sottotitolo: Studies in the Pagan and Christian Roots of Mariology
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Stephen Benko
- Editore: Brill Academic Pub
- Collana: Brill Academic Pub (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Gennaio '03
- Genere: RELIGION
- Argomenti : Goddesses, Roman Christianity and other religions Roman
- Dimensioni mm: 247 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 9004136398
- EAN-13: 9789004136397