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From the formulations at Ephesos and Chalcedon Mary formed part of the understanding of a God made Flesh and of a picture of redemption which was all-embracing in its promise and tantalizing in its accessibility. This essay shows just how wide and diverse were the medieval ways of thinking about Mary and the ways of exploring the possibilities ...
The Virgin Mary in Western Representations Most Western types of the Virgin’s image, such as the twelfth-century “Throne of Wisdom” from central France, in which the Christ Child is presented frontally as the sum of divine wisdom, seem to have originated in Byzantium ( 16.32.194 ).
Nov 25, 2021 · Celebrating the relatively new (and non-biblical) feast of the Virgin’s Nativity, Fulbert endorsed the Church’s greater openness to apocryphal accounts of Mary’s life, arguing that ‘particularly on this day it (page 103) p. 103 seemed that the book that was found written concerning [Mary’s] origin and life ought to be read in church, even though the [Church] Fathers did not decide to ...
This book was first published in 2011. The Virgin Mary was one of the most powerful images of the Middle Ages, central to people's experience of Christianity. During the Reformation, however, many images of the Virgin were destroyed, as Protestantism rejected the way the medieval Church over-valued and sexualized Mary.
- Gary F. Waller
- 2011
This chapter examines the complex factors that led to Mary becoming so closely identified with the virtue in the Latin Church and discuss the nature of Marian humility in this period, often mistakenly confused with passivity and servility. Keywords: Virgin Mary, humility, obedience, Patristic, Medieval, monastic, kenosis, biblical, Greco-Roman ...
Jan 1, 2003 · Mary did not eat real food but instead was fed by angels. 50 Irenaeus claimed that Mary was the "cause of salvation" and had the power to inte rcede with God on behalf of mankind. 51 Another sign
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Download. XML. In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters sh...
