By Stephen Benko
The modern look for the female face of God is requiring a re-assessment of the connection of Christianity to the pagan global during which it got here to delivery. Stephen Benko methods this examine as either an historian and a Christian believer. Inquiring into extra-biblical assets of Marian piety, trust and doctrine, he proposes that there's a direct line, unbroken and obviously discernible, from the goddess-cults of the ancients to the reverence paid and at last the cult accorded to the Virgin Mary. bankruptcy by means of bankruptcy, he seeks to set up his end that during Mariology the Christian genius preserved and reworked the very best and noblest principles that paganism constructed prior to it. instead of being a "regression" into Paganism, he argues, Mariology is a development towards a clearer and higher knowing of the female point of the divine and the function of the feminine within the background of salvation.
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