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In the Image of Her - Recovering Motherhood in the Christian Tradition (Hardcover)
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In the Image of Her - Recovering Motherhood in the Christian Tradition (Hardcover)
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The body of the mother is both everywhere and nowhere in the
Christian imagination. Western Christianity has long viewed the
mother's body as a vessel. Through her, nothing less than the sin
and the salvation of all humanity entered history. Eve birthed
children into sin, and the Virgin Mary brought forth the savior of
the world. Christian theologians across the centuries have largely
focused on these two idealized mothers at the expense of actual
biological mothers. By the same token, modern feminist theology has
shied away from seeing mothers as feminist agents in God-talk in
its drive toward equity in religious leadership. With In the Image
of Her, Amy Marga argues that a feminist, maternal theology is an
overlooked and yet critical perspective for our understanding of
God's work in the world. Far from only being vessels of new
creation, the bodies of mothers are distinct ecosystems of God's
creative agency and demonstrate how God's work involves both
cooperation and competition. Marga seeks to broaden the Christian
imagination about women and creativity, and to liberate actual
biological mothers from myths of Christian motherhood. Two kinds of
historical evidence give us some sense of what Christians imagined
about mothering and women who were mothers: discourse from within
the all-male theological writing establishment, and documented
practices of women around the events of motherhood, such as magical
customs around pregnancy and birth; the pilgrimages women took in
order to pray for safe delivery; and ecclesiastical rituals such as
postpartum rites of purification. It may seem that mothers'
perspectives and practices did not influence the Christian
theological imagination. Marga, however, maps historical and
theological developments around Christian perspectives on mothering
to show that Christian mothers-along with and in spite of
male-dominated institutions and ideas-have continued to shape their
own motherhoods, creatively and boldly adapting the received
traditions of the faith to their circumstances for their own
survival and the survival of their children.
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