The Feminine Dimension of the Divine by Joan Chamberlain Engelsman.
Description
1. The Archetype -- 2. The Feminine Archetypes. The Great Mother -- 3. The Repression of the Feminine -- 4. The Hellenistic Goddesses: Demeter and Isis. The Hellenistic Setting. Mystery Religions. Demeter and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Isis -- 5. The Expression and Repression of Sophia. The Repression of Sophia in the Writings of Philo. The Repression of Sophia in the New Testament -- 6. The Return of the Repressed. Mariology. The Apocrypha. Iconography and Hymnology. Theology. Ecclesiology. Christology -- 7. Conclusion -- A. Psychology: Archetypes and Repression -- B. The Hellenistic World: The Mystery Religions of Demeter and Isis -- C. Sophia and Logos in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity -- D. Mariology, Ecclesiology, and Christology.
x, 209 p. ;20 cm.
Book Details
Author
Engelsman, Joan Chamberlain
Publication Subjects
Femininity of God.
God (Christianity)--History of doctrines.
Goddesses.
Call No.
BT102 .E52 1994
ISBN
0933029918, 9780933029910
LCCN
94022539
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-206) and index.
Publication Info: Wilmette, Ill. :Chiron Publications,c1994(1995 printing)