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God and the goddesses.
"God and the Goddesses is a study 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, Barbar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr,
2005.
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| Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "God and the Goddesses is a study 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 survival nor versions of the Great Goddess constructed in archetypal psychology, but distinctive creations of the Christian imagination."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-436) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0812202910 9780812202915 |