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Eve's Pilgrimage : a Woman's Quest for the City of God.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1 In the Beginning: The Sistine Chapel; Creativity, visions and symbols; Male and female they created them; Gender, love and solitude; Images of God; Sexuality and the Fall; The New Eve; Restoring the vision; 2 Fallen Empires, Holy Wars: The Colosseum; The militant Church; Violence and the social order; Genesis, sex and violence; Genesis in the Early Church; From pacifism to holy war; Modernity and war; Envisioning peace; 3 Baptizing Eve: The Pantheon; Christian and pagan encounters; Mary, Eve and the goddess.
- The defeat of the goddessSexual annihilation; Feminizing religion; Gendered rites; Baptismal births; 4 The Maternal Church: Santa Maria in Trastevere; The birth of Mary; The story of St Anne; Maternal conceptions; Christian matricide; From sacramentality to morality; Reforming symbols; 5 The Fall of Nature: Santa Maria Maggiore and the Villa Borghese; The story so far; From humility to humiliation; Dis-graced nature; The pagan Church; Feminine nature and masculine science; Nature as Eve; 6 Dancing in the Dark: Mass at St Peter's; The broken Church; Human misery and God's mercy.
- Affirming goodnessThe Second Vatican Council; Joy and hope, grief and anguish; Breaking and blessing; 7 Death's Friendship: Domitilla Catacombs; The jigsaw of death; Baptizing the darkness; Death's enigma; The cult of the saints; The anonymity of death; Befriending death; 8 Love's Resurrection: The Paul VI Concert Hall; The dancing Christ and the dancing women; Nuclear transfigurations; Imaginative resurrections; The language of life; Practising for eternity; Resurrection and justice; Redemption; 'A reconstruction of feelings'; The bride; Bibliography.