TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kearns,Cleo McNelly
TI  - The Virgin Mary, monotheism, and sacrifice
SN  - 9780511409837
AV  - BT603 .K43 2008eb
U1  - 232.91 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mary,
KW  - Sacrifice
KW  - Christianity
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Christology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Theories of sacrifice -- Mary, motherhood and sacrifice in the Gospels -- Mary and priesthood
N2  - 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
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