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To understand the cult of the Virgin Mary is to understand the Christian relgion. The Virgin Mary is a ubiquitous but enigmatic presence in Christian history and culture. The tradition about Mary forms a vast and multi-layered aspect of Western history, culture and spirituality. It is not just in the Catholic tradition that Mary has become a particular focus of study and interest. Mary has also become a crucial interest for Christians outside ...

Three women are caught up in the changes sweeping through Rhodesia as the country lurches from white colonialism into civil war. Passions flare and secret romances risk tragic consequences in a society tearing itself apart. An abiding love emerges amidst the treacherous violence of a dying era.

Father John is the parish priest of Our Lady of Sorrows in Westonville, but when the ordered tranquillity of his life is shattered by a stranger walking into the confessional on Ash Wednesday, he finds himself on a Lenten journey of increasing dread and horror.

It is hard to over-estimate the challenge that feminism poses to Roman Catholicism. Pope John Paul II's call for a 'new feminism' has led to the development of a Catholic theological response to the so-called 'old feminism'. The New Catholic Feminism sets up a dramatic encounter between the orthodox Catholic establishment and contemporary critical theory, including feminist theology and philosophy, queer theory, and French psycholinguistics, i...

Engaging the theology of Thomas Aquinas with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, Tina Beattie shows how Thomism exerted a formative influence on Lacan, and how a Lacanian approach can bring new insights to Thomas's theology. Lacan makes possible a renewed Thomism which offers a rich theology of creation, incarnation, and redemption.

Engaging the theology of Aquinas with the psychoanalytic theory of Lacan, Tina Beattie shows how Thomism exerted a formative influence on Lacan, and how a Lacanian approach can bring new insights to Thomas's theology. Lacan makes possible a renewed Thomism which offers a rich theology of creation, incarnation, and redemption.

A stunning book on the theology of woman by the brightest of a new generation of Roman Catholic female theologians.

The New Catholic Feminism sets up a dramatic encounter between the orthodox Catholic establishment and contemporary critical theory, in order to explore fundamental questions about human identity, personhood and gender.

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In this original book, the author journies through Rome, following biblical events and themes in works of art: from Genesis in the Sistine Chapel, through Incarnation in the Pantheon and Resurrection in Michaelangelo's Last Judgement.She touches on many themes in her journey, including violence and power (at the Colloseum), social injustice (at St. Mary Major) and motherhood (at the icon of Our Lady in Perpetual Succour).Writing as an intellig...

A lively and provactive contribution to the debate, Tina Beattie, argues the threat of religious fanaticism is mirrored by a no less virulent and ignorant secular fanaticism.

In The Last Supper According to Martha and Mary, Tina Beattie imagines what it would have been like if these two had been with Jesus during his final hours.