Promiscuous Grace : Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Class 200: New Studies in Religion
ISBN-10
0226826104
ISBN-13
9780226826103
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 19th, 2023
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
366 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 23.00 x 1.90 cms
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A meditation on holiness and beauty through the study of Saint Mary of Egypt. Saint Mary of Egypt has fascinated theologians, poets, and artists since the seventh century. Her story is richly evocative, encompassing sin and sanctity, concupiscence and asceticism, youth and old age. In Promiscuous Grace, Sonia Velázquez thinks with Saint Mary of Egypt about the relationship between beauty and holiness. Drawing on an archive spanning Spanish medieval poetry, Baroque paintings, seventeenth-century hagiography, and Balzac’s Le chef-d’œuvre inconnu, Velázquez argues for the importance of the senses on the surface of religious texts on her way to revealing why the legend of Saint Mary of Egypt still matters today.
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