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Mark (Paperback, New ed.)
Mary Ann Beavis, Mikeal Parsons, Charles Talbert
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In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, Mary Ann
Beavis examines cultural context and theological meaning in Mark.
Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian
readers by
- attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the
text employs
- showing how the text shapes theological convictions and moral
habits
- commenting on the final, canonical form of each New Testament
book
- focusing on the cultural, literary, and theological settings of
the text
- making judicious use of maps, photos, and sidebars in a
reader-friendly format
Students, pastors, and other readers will appreciate the insights
that Beavis derives from interrogating the text through multiple
perspectives.
This monograph focuses on "Christian Goddess Spirituality" (CGS),
the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and
Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft. Mary Ann Beavis's
study provides ethnographic data and analysis on the lived
religious experience of CGS practitioners, drawing on interviews of
over 100 women who self-identify as combining Christianity and
Goddess spirituality. Although CGS also has implications for
Goddess Spirituality and related traditions (e.g., Neopaganism,
Wicca), here, CGS is considered primarily as a phenomenon within
Christianity. However, the study also shows that the fusion of
Christian and Goddess spiritualties has had an impact on
non-Christian feminist spirituality, since Goddess-worshippers have
often constructed Christianity as the diametrical opposite and
enemy of the Goddess, to the point that some refuse to admit the
possibility that CGS is a valid spiritual path, or that it is even
possible. In addition, biblical, Jewish and Christian images of the
divine such as Sophia, Shekhinah, the Virgin Mary, and even Mary
Magdalene, have found their way into the "Pagan" Goddess pantheon.
The main themes of the study include: overlaps and differences
between Christian feminist theology and CGS; the routes to CGS for
individual practitioners, and their beliefs, practices and
experiences; proto-denominational classifications ("spiritual
paths") within CGS; CGS thealogy (Christian discourse about the
female divine); and the future of CGS in social scientific and
ecclesiological context. Christian Goddess Spirituality will be of
interest to scholars of religion, especially those with interests
in women and religion, feminist spiritualities, feminist
theology/thealogy, alternative spiritualities, New Religious
Movements, and emergent Christianities.
This monograph focuses on "Christian Goddess Spirituality" (CGS),
the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and
Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft. Mary Ann Beavis's
study provides ethnographic data and analysis on the lived
religious experience of CGS practitioners, drawing on interviews of
over 100 women who self-identify as combining Christianity and
Goddess spirituality. Although CGS also has implications for
Goddess Spirituality and related traditions (e.g., Neopaganism,
Wicca), here, CGS is considered primarily as a phenomenon within
Christianity. However, the study also shows that the fusion of
Christian and Goddess spiritualties has had an impact on
non-Christian feminist spirituality, since Goddess-worshippers have
often constructed Christianity as the diametrical opposite and
enemy of the Goddess, to the point that some refuse to admit the
possibility that CGS is a valid spiritual path, or that it is even
possible. In addition, biblical, Jewish and Christian images of the
divine such as Sophia, Shekhinah, the Virgin Mary, and even Mary
Magdalene, have found their way into the "Pagan" Goddess pantheon.
The main themes of the study include: overlaps and differences
between Christian feminist theology and CGS; the routes to CGS for
individual practitioners, and their beliefs, practices and
experiences; proto-denominational classifications ("spiritual
paths") within CGS; CGS thealogy (Christian discourse about the
female divine); and the future of CGS in social scientific and
ecclesiological context. Christian Goddess Spirituality will be of
interest to scholars of religion, especially those with interests
in women and religion, feminist spiritualities, feminist
theology/thealogy, alternative spiritualities, New Religious
Movements, and emergent Christianities.
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John 11-21 (Hardcover, 44B)
Mary L Coloe; Edited by Barbara E Reid; Volume editing by Mary Ann Beavis
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Teaching and researching the Gospel of John for thirty years has
led author Mary L. Coloe to an awareness of the importance of the
wisdom literature to make sense of Johannine theology, language,
and symbolism: in the prologue, with Nicodemus, in the Bread of
Life discourse, with Mary and Lazarus, and in the culminating
"Hour." She also shows how the late Second Temple theology
expressed in the books of Sirach and Wisdom, considered
deuterocanonical and omitted from some Bible editions, are
essential intertexts. Only the book of Wisdom speaks of "the reign
of God" (Wis 10:10), "eternity life" (Wis 5:15), and the ambrosia
maintaining angelic life (Wis 19:21)-all concepts found in John's
Gospel. While the Gospel explicitly states the Logos was enfleshed
in Jesus, this is also true of Sophia. Coloe makes the case that
Jesus's words and deeds embody Sophia throughoutthe narrative. At
the beginning of each chapter Coloe provides text from the later
wisdom books that resonate with the Gospel passage, drawing Sophia
out of the shadows.
Mark 4.11-12, the 'parable theory' passage, has probably been
commented upon more often than any other section of Mark's Gospel.
The saying has usually been interpreted as an authentic utterance
of Jesus, which was subsequently misunderstood and misinterpreted
by early Christians - including the evangelist Mark. The precise
meaning of the mystery logion in the ministry of Jesus is
notoriously elusive, since we have no information about the context
in which it was spoken, or about the audience to which it was
addressed. Much more, however, can be known about the
interpretative context of the logion in Mark, since it is
surrounded by passages that seem to echo the mystery saying. This
study examines the complex web of literary relationships between
Mark 4.11-12 and the Gospel as a whole. Dr Beavis's fresh
interpretation is unusual in that she undertakes to interpret the
Gospel of Mark, as far as possible, from the point of view of its
'historical' readers/audience. Chapters 1 and 2 of the book attempt
to describe the 'community' for which the Gospel was written, and
in the rest of the book, this socio-cultural setting is used to
investigate the meaning of the mystery saying for the original
readers/hearers of Mark.
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What Does the Bible Say? (Paperback)
Mary Ann Beavis, Hyeran Kim-Cragg; Foreword by Catherine Faith MacLean
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R696
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What Does the Bible Say? (Hardcover)
Mary Ann Beavis, Hyeran Kim-Cragg; Foreword by Catherine Faith MacLean
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R1,206
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Consumers of culture in the modern world - whether high culture or
popular culture - discover before long that the Bible, its tales
and its characters and its idioms, is woven into the culture. Most
of us wish we knew the Bible better, and are often at a loss to
know what the biblical source or reference is to phrases or ideas
we encounter. The editors of this unique volume have seen the need
for an easy-to-use reference guide for those needing to track down
information on characters, phrases, places, and concepts
originating in the Bible. They assembled 200 scholars to write 1000
encyclopaedia entries on such biblical backgrounds to Western
culture. The contributors to the volume have in mind readers
without the specialization of formal biblical studies, and even
those not familiar with the Bible's basic content. The presentation
is twofold: entries begin with discussion of biblical terms in
their original settings, and then illustrate occasions when those
terms reappear in later cultural artefacts. This volume is then a
dictionary of the reception of the Bible in later Western artistic
and intellectual expression. There is a great deal here to explore
and discover; turning these pages will prove illuminating not only
as an introduction to biblical literature but also as a
demonstration of the Bible's persistent contributions to our
cultural heritage.
A collection of feminist interpretations of parables about women
and women's work. The authors, who include Pheme Perkins, Barbara
Reid and Adele Reinhartz, aim to fill a gap in the scholarly
literature on parables, bringing to life vignettes from ancient
Mediterranean women's lives and offering insights into the place of
women in the ministry of Jesus, the early church, and Christian
theology. This volume is designed as a resource for scholarship,
teaching and preaching.
This interdisciplinary volume of text and art offers new insights
into various unsolved mysteries associated with Mary Magdalene,
Mary of Bethany, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Miriam the sister of
Moses. Mariamic traditions are often interconnected, as seen in the
portrayal of these women as community leaders, prophets, apostles
and priests. These traditions also are often inter-religious,
echoing themes back to Miriam in the Hebrew Bible as well as
forward to Maryam in the Qur'an. The chapters explore questions
such as: which biblical Mary did the author of the Gospel of Mary
intend to portray-Magdalene, Mother, or neither? Why did some
writers depict Mary of Nazareth as a priest? Were extracanonical
scriptures featuring Mary more influential than the canonical
gospels on the depiction of Maryam in the Qur'an? Contributors dig
deep into literature, iconography, and archaeology to offer cutting
edge research under three overarching topics. The first section
examines the question of "which Mary?" and illustrates how some
ancient authors (and contemporary scholars) may have conflated the
biblical Marys. The second section focuses on Mary of Nazareth, and
includes research related to the portrayal of Mary the Mother of
Jesus as a Eucharistic priest. The final section, "Recovering
Receptions of Mary in Art, Archeology, and Literature," explores
how artists and authors have engaged with one or more of the Marys,
from the early Christian era through to medieval and modern times.
Scholarship on the historical Jesus and, now, on the "Jesus
movement" generally divides into separate camps around two sticky
questions: was Jesus an apocalyptic prophet and was the movement
around him political, that is nationalistic or revolutionary? Mary
Ann Beavis moves the study of the historical Jesus in a dramatic
new direction as she highlights the context of ancient utopian
thought and utopian communities, drawing particularly on the Essene
community and Philo's discussion of the Therapeutae, and argues
that only ancient utopian thought accounts for the lack of explicit
political echoes in Jesus' message of the kingdom of God.
This interdisciplinary volume of text and art offers new insights
into various unsolved mysteries associated with Mary Magdalene,
Mary of Bethany, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Miriam the sister of
Moses. Mariamic traditions are often interconnected, as seen in the
portrayal of these women as community leaders, prophets, apostles
and priests. These traditions also are often inter-religious,
echoing themes back to Miriam in the Hebrew Bible as well as
forward to Maryam in the Qur'an. The chapters explore questions
such as: which biblical Mary did the author of the Gospel of Mary
intend to portray-Magdalene, Mother, or neither? Why did some
writers depict Mary of Nazareth as a priest? Were extracanonical
scriptures featuring Mary more influential than the canonical
gospels on the depiction of Maryam in the Qur'an? Contributors dig
deep into literature, iconography, and archaeology to offer cutting
edge research under three overarching topics. The first section
examines the question of "which Mary?" and illustrates how some
ancient authors (and contemporary scholars) may have conflated the
biblical Marys. The second section focuses on Mary of Nazareth, and
includes research related to the portrayal of Mary the Mother of
Jesus as a Eucharistic priest. The final section, "Recovering
Receptions of Mary in Art, Archeology, and Literature," explores
how artists and authors have engaged with one or more of the Marys,
from the early Christian era through to medieval and modern times.
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