![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Kp boken Mother of God av Miri Rubin (ISBN 9780141019352) hos Adlibris. (Apr.)Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Rubin's study goes a long way toward helping readers understand Mary and deserves a wide readership. In the end, Mary is as complex as is Christianity itself. But she also serves as a useful tool to help all believers reflect on the uses of the feminine in private yearnings and public supplications. Mary emerges in this study as a multifunctional Swiss army knife of spirituality, variously used as a model of motherhood, an object of devotion and a focal point of conflict among Christian believers. ![]() ![]() Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture 112 copies, 1 review. Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary 140 copies, 5 reviews. ![]() Rubin, professor of history at Queen Mary University of London, brings to this work a panoramic view of Mary's impact on the evolution and growth of Christianity, especially Catholic Christianity. Miri Rubin, author of The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages, on LibraryThing. But sometimes an individual rises from the pages of Scripture to take on a role so central, so important to Christendom's self-understanding that legend and devotion supersede historical verities. At first glance, it would seem that attempts to write histories of biblical characters must be hampered by the sparsity of extracanonical writings that inform our understandings of the Bible's people. ![]()
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