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Mary (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Mary (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: New Century Theology
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In recent years Mary has stepped out of the closet of piety and
devotion and become the subject of serious theological study and
work. For too long Mary was an icon for the repression of women by
a male dominated Church, but now Mary is seen as a vital
theological symbol, a symbol of true femininity and true humanity
which the Church and the modern world needs urgently. Jung has
argued that the Definition of the Doctrine of the Assumptioin was
the most important religious event since the Reformation: the
feminine principle has been absorbed into the Godhead. Yet amongst
some modern Catholics, as well as most Protestant Christians, the
Virgin Mary is still seen as someone who has a very small part to
play in the drama of salvation and creation. In Mary, Sarah Jane
Boss seeks to correct this view. She argues that Christian theology
should conceive of the created order, both physical and spiritual,
as sacred in the highest degree, and that this understanding is
already implicit in traditions of Marian doctrine and devotion. Far
from being peripheral this understanding of Mary is central to
Christian doctrine. It must underlie any attempt to answer the
fundamental ethical questions of our age, namely that of the extent
to which human beings are entitled to intervene in the natural
order.
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