Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings

Title: Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings
Author: Sara Maitland
Religion & Spirituality: 1682971
ISBN: 9780826410740
Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
Published: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Section: Social Science | Women's Studies
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.