{"product_id":"promiscuous-grace-sonia-vel-zquez-9780226826103","title":"Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt","description":"\u003cb\u003eA meditation on holiness and beauty through the study of Saint Mary of Egypt.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePromiscuous Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eLe chef-d'oeuvre inconnu\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sonia Vel痙quez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226826104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226826103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Sonia Vel痙quez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069594431743,"sku":"9780226826103","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f9d9c0c8-9269-4793-a98d-b1fa3ee44db0.jpg?v=1685425517","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/promiscuous-grace-sonia-vel-zquez-9780226826103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}