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Promiscuous Grace
Sonia Velázquez
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Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
出版University of Chicago Press, 2023-05-19
主題Religion / GeneralReligion / Biblical Studies / New Testament / GeneralReligion / Christianity / Literature & the ArtsReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Christianity / GeneralReligion / Sexuality & Gender Studies
ISBN02268261049780226826103
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=z5m4EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Theologians, poets, artists, and laypeople alike have been fascinated by Saint Mary of Egypt's legend since it was first recorded in the seventh century. Mary's prominence is religious and symbolic, encompassing sin and sanctity, the excesses of nymphomania and asceticism, the charms of nubile youth and the wrinkles of old age. In Promiscuous Grace, scholar of religion Sonia Velâazquez thinks with Saint Mary of Egypt about what beauty has to do with holiness. With an archive spanning medieval Spanish poetry, Baroque paintings, a seventeenth-century hagiographic drama, and Balzac's treatment of Saint Mary in Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, Velâazquez argues for the relevance of the appeal to the senses and the importance of the surface in religious texts. She draws on insights from philosophy, literary history and theory, and religious, visual and gender studies, and pays close attention to the texture of the words and images that make the legend of Saint Mary of Egypt come alive and remain relevant today"--