Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings - Hardcover

Maitland, Sara; Mulford, Wendy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082641074X ISBN 13: 9780826410740

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 1998

Synopsis

The saints, despite the ethical problems they often raise, remain a point of access to the mystery of holiness. In this book, Sara Maitland and Wendy Mulford have travelled a creative path which accepts the complex relationship between historical fact and spiritual truth. Denying the validity of neither, and exploring a new form - complex, double-sided, poetic - the book offers a meeting-place between virtue and magic. Virtuous Magic is for pilgrims, for feminists, for ordinary Christians, and for anyone who has ever wondered about that strange magic which the saints have exerted throughout Christian history.

About this title

Synopsis:

The double-page spread on each saint contains poems, stories, sermons and quotations as well as background information and references. The authors selected the 41 female saints for personal reasons and state that their texts are interpretations of interpretations for the reader to interpret further

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 082641074X
• ISBN 13: 9780826410740
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 381