God's mother, Eve's advocate : a Marian narrative of women's salvation / Tina Beattie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beattie, Tina, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eve (Biblical figure).

Eve.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Mary.

Women in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tina Beattie has written a stunning book on the theology of woman. Her stated objective is to discern the place of the female body in the Christian story of salvation and she has done so from the very heart of Christian stylisations of the female--the figures of Mary and Eve.Beattie has pursued her subject with the aid of French psychoanalytic feminism--these writers are preoccupied, as is Catholic theology, with questions of language and symbolism. But she deliberately puts herself at odds with neo-orthodoxy and feminist liberal theology; she believes that theologians like von Balthasar depar

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE NARRATIVE, SYMBOLISM AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; Narrative and identity; Narrative and gender; Irigaray and psychoanalysis; Irigaray's psycholinguistic critique of Western culture; Irigaray and the reclamation of women's religious traditions; Going beyond Irigaray - the potential of the Catholic story; CHAPTER TWO: NARRATIVE ORIGINS: INTERPRETING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FEMALE BODY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN READINGS OF GENESIS; Fallen knowledge and the enigma of sexual origins

Christian refigurations of Genesis 1-3Sexual difference and the body in early Christian writings; The influence of Augustine on Western Christianity; Women's holiness and the mimesis of masculinity; Mary and the redemption of women; Early Christianity, paganism and Eve; CHAPTER THREE THE FEMALE BODY AND THE SACRAMENTAL PRIESTHOOD IN NEO-ORTHODOX CATHOLIC THEOLOGY; Essentializing masculinity - the sacramental priesthood and the maleness of Christ; Symbolic femininity and the female body; The phallus, the priesthood and the symbolic transformation the Mass

Marian theology and the rehabilitation of the female bodyCHAPTER FOUR THE MATERNAL BODY AND THE INCARNATION; The doctrinal significance of Mary's virginal motherhood in the early Church; Transcending the maternal body - Irigaray's critique of Plato; The maternal body as source of life - theological perspectives; Reconciling opposites - motherhood and the incarnation; Childbirth, suffering and the redemption of women; 'Mother of the living' - Eve and the symbolization of death; CHAPTER FIVE THE SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE VIRGIN BIRTH; The incarnation as a symbolic return to origins

Genesis and the fall into dualismAural intercourse - sexuality, the fall and the annunciation; Virginity and the renewal of creation; Purity and impurity as metaphors of life and death; Sexuality, violence and the virgin birth according to René Girard; CHAPTER SIX MARY AS MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: MATERNAL GENEALOGIES AND MARIAN THEOLOGY; Separation and identity in the mother-daughter relationship; Mothers, daughters and the symbolic dereliction of women; The motherhood of Mary from the perspectives of contemporary Catholic women; 'Daughter of Eve Unfallen' - Mary as the daughter of Eve

The motherhood of Mary, Eve and the ChurchThe maternal gaze - the mother's body as visual space; CHAPTER SEVEN BEARING THE PERSON OF EVE: MARY AND THE REDEMPTION OF WOMEN; 'Can a male saviour save women?' - a perennial question; The Magnificat of the redeemed woman; Redeeming Eve - a gynocentric reclamation; Rethinking the hymen - refïguring virginity; Prometheus or Pandora? - Eve, Mary and human freedom; A feminine divine? - language, subjectivity and divinity; Redeeming sexual difference; CHAPTER EIGHT EVE, MARY AND THE PRIESTHOOD

Priesthood, sacrifice and fecundity- perpetuatinf religious genealogies

Notes:

Previously published as: God's mother, Eve's advocate : a gynocentric refiguration of Marian symbolism in engagement with Luce Irigaray. Bristol : Centre for Comparative Studies in Religion and Gender, 1999, in series: CCSRG monograph series 3, the University of Bristol.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-20580-7

9786613205803

1-4411-4184-7

OCLC:

741687277