The Kearns, Cleo McNelly 1943- creator text bibliography Electronic books. enk Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 2008 monographic eng 1 online resource (xii, 356 pages) : illustrations The Virgin Mary plays a major - although often paradoxical - role in the incarnation and crucifixion and in the ecclesiastical structure of Christianity. This role is shaped by sacrifice as understood in terms of the religious patrimony of ancient Israel and as refigured in the new Christian and Islamic paradigms arising from it. Here the offering up of a son is a frequently occurring motif, one in which fathers and mothers play an emotionally fraught, anthropologically conditioned and theologically significant role. Like such figures as Abraham and Sarah in the Hebrew Bible, Mary's relationship to sacrifice has profound implications not only for Christian theology, but for later developments in monotheism, including the role of women and gender in creating and sustaining religious identities, the emergence of competing definitions of orthodoxy, and the institution in some traditions of a masculine priesthood and religious hierarchy. Theories of sacrifice -- Mary, motherhood and sacrifice in the Gospels -- Mary and priesthood. Cleo McNelly Kearns. Includes bibliographical references and index. Blessed Virgin, Saint Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint Mary Sacrifice Christianity RELIGION Christian Theology Christology Sacrifice Christianity BT603 .K43 2008eb 232.91 Kearns, Cleo McNelly, 1943- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007045447 (OCoLC)181072577 9780511409837 0511409834 0521871565 9780521871563 051140929X 9780511409295 9780511407932 0511407939 9786611717049 6611717048 2007045447 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=230725 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=230725 N$T 080829 20200709055151.0 ocn244632567 eng