Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt by Velázquez, Sonia

Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226826103)

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Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt by Velázquez, Sonia

Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt

$27.50
Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt by Velázquez, Sonia

Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt

$27.50
Format: Paperback
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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 Vel痙quez 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'oeuvre inconnu, Vel痙quez 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.

Author: Sonia Vel痙quez
ISBN-10: 0226826104
ISBN-13: 9780226826103
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2023
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
By Sonia Vel痙quez
By Sonia Vel痙quez
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Sonia Vel痙quez is assistant professor of religious studies and comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington. She is coeditor of Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed.

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