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Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty - The First Mexican Theology (Paperback)
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Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty - The First Mexican Theology (Paperback)
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With Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty, George H.
Tavard presents the first thorough investigation of the theology of
the greatest Latin American poet before our own time. HIs program
is all the more important because she was the first woman of this
continent to assert the right of women to study to the full extent
of their capacities. An intelligent and intellectual woman, Juana
Inés was eager to live a life of scholarship and felt "a great
aversion to matrimony," which directed her to enter the convent in
1667. Tavard provides a thought-provoking analysis both of the
theological ideas that Juana Inés expressed in poetry and prose
and of the conclusions, provisional or definitive, she may have
reached about herself and about humanity.Through a close study of
many of her clearly authenticated works—her didactic poem,
Primero Sueño (First Dream); her poems in honor of the saints; her
religious drama; her poems in honor of Christ and the Virgin; her
lyric verse on devotional themes; and her prose writings on
religious topics--Tavard draws out Sor Juana’s conception of the
world and the soul, her ideas about the saints, her understanding
of the Virgin, and her Christology. He offers a coherent
theological and spiritual argument for Juana’s renunciation of
further writing in 1692. In discussing the shape of her theological
imagination, Tavard concludes that for Juana, “the physical and
spiritual beauty of creatures, a gift of God’s love, acts as a
theopany” through which divine glory is perceived.
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