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Thesis advisor: Boyd Taylor Coolman / The Commedia begins and ends with two images of the human person: the shadowy self that inaugurates the Inferno and the visage of Christ (la nostra effige) that concludes the paradisal ascent. I read the Commedia as just this: a chronicle of Dante’s translation (trasumanare) from the former to the latter, from shadow to Image. Specifically, this study offers a meditation on how Dante’s translation from shadow to Image is presided over by the Madonna, whose muted presence throughout the poem serves as a theophany, in literary form, of Divine humility. The controlling image of this thesis is a scene in Purgatorio 10 where Dante, after passing through the gates of purgatory and surveying the penitential landscape that horizons his journey ahead, will measure (misurebbe) that distance according to the scale of un corpo umano (Purg.10.24). As I interpret it, the appearance of this lexicon, misurrebbe—the conditional of misurare, meaning “to measure”—at this specific moment is Dante’s way of subtly articulating how the ascent up purgatory’s mountain is fundamentally a search after the human person: the human measure that is obscured and abandoned in inferno as a result of pride (superbia) is slowly rediscovered and mirrored in purgatory (Purg. 1.129). Specific to the Commedia, the search for this human measure unfolds within a Marian soundscape: it is the voice of Mary’s humility that en-voices anew Dante's own. In Purgatorio 10.97, Dante will name the image of Marian humility as visibile parlare, or speech made visible, an obvious gesture to the incarnation. As the breathing image of God, Mary’s humility represents much more than a mere virtue; at the literary level, it serves as an exegesis of the Divine society, a revealing of God. The image of Marian humility thus provides the key to interpreting the poem’s concluding visio dei, which does not unravel as an imageless mystical vision but appears as an enfleshed image: the face of Christ, whose visage is double, Divine and human. The ultimate aim of this thesis is to ponder the implications of Dante representing Marian humility as the vernacular of God. The result is a theological contribution to Dante studies where the literary presence of the Madonna is more fully thematized, a presence that, though central to both the poem’s form and content, has somehow remained largely understudied within Dante scholarship. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

Juan Gil de Zamora est l’un des plus importants encyclopédistes hispaniques de langue latine. Actif à la fin du XIIIe siècle, il est lié à la cour d’Alphonse X et de Sanche IV et remplit des charges élevées dans son ordre franciscain, après des études parisiennes. Ce travail propose une editio princeps traduite et commentée de ses seize sermons mariaux répertoriés à ce jour. Elle est précédée d’une étude introductive fournissant données biographiques, réflexion sur son système encyclopédique, étude de sa part mariale et diverses découvertes homilétiques / Juan Gil of Zamora is one of the major hispanolatin encylopedist. Active at the end of the XIIIth century, he was linked with Alphonse the Xth’s and Sancho the IVth’s courts. Before playing an important part in his Franciscan Order he studied in Paris. This work provides with a translated and commented editio princeps of the sixteen marian sermons that could be listed. It goes with an introduction dealing with afresh biographical datas, thoughts on Gil’s encyclopedic system, marian production and homiletic discoveries

Undergraduate honors paper--Mount Holyoke College, 2007. Dept. of Art. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-112).

This project develops a feminist Christology by affirming the female body as a hermeneutical lens for Christological reflection. Utilizing the work of feminist theorists Luce Irigaray and Bracha Ettinger, I develop what I term a “matrixial Christology.” In response to feminist contentions regarding the androcentric nature of Christian soteriology, I argue that by interpreting the incarnation of the Word through the lens of the matrixial—the inherently feminine physical and psychic space of the womb—an inclusive and generative landscape for theological reflection emerges. Understanding the union of divine and human natures through the matrixial holds potential to reimagine other key doctrines, including the Trinity, ecclesiology, and eschatology. This dissertation revisits documents from the Councils of Nicaea (325 A.D.), Ephesus (431 A.D.), and Chalcedon (451 A.D.), as well as theologians of antiquity such as Irenaeus, Athanasius, Cyril of Alexander, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Maximus the Confessor, among others, to provide feminist critique and excavate these works for their liberative potential. Feminist scholarship also contributes to this critical constructive work, including authors such as Elizabeth Johnson, Tina Beattie, Mary Daly, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Ada María Isasi-Díaz. I argue that recovering Mary’s role in the incarnation allows for a reinterpretation of key doctrines in the Christian tradition and lays the groundwork for a feminine divine horizon in which women are able to more fully locate themselves in Christian soteriological discourse. Women’s theoretical and theological scholarship is placed in dialogue with ancient texts in order to consider the liberative potential of Christological discourse and to develop a robustly feminine symbolic for divine imagination utilizing Mariology as a primary foundation. The project begins by considering the implications of Mary and Christ’s matrixial maternal-prenatal relation for divine-human relations, then continues by exploring how Mary’s matrixial relation with Christ affects our understanding of his life and crucifixion. The project culminates in an examination of how Mary represents the possibility of resurrection for women traditionally excluded or demonized in the church. By reimagining Mary’s role in the Christian story, new avenues for female liberation and flourishing in the ekklesia might be realized. / 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z

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Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-05-04T12:40:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIELLE VENTURA BANDEIRA DE LIMA.pdf: 16764119 bytes, checksum: 813d6c5cc61915526b74b5b43eb8d639 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-04T12:40:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIELLE VENTURA BANDEIRA DE LIMA.pdf: 16764119 bytes, checksum: 813d6c5cc61915526b74b5b43eb8d639 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-03 / This paper aims at analyzing socio-cultural relations prevailing inside father Ibiapina’s Charity Houses, which contributed to his social work emphasizing the figure of Mary as developed by Classical Mariology. In this sense, Reception History was an important tool in this analysis, along with a dialogue with some distinguished authors who privilege this gender in their works. A review of the works of Bourdieu, Geertz, Berger, and Foucault among other social thinkers was necessary to accomplish a more vivid portrait of the social interactions experienced in the research, as well as the religious foundation of their relations, considering that their ideas allowed us to make an in-depth study of the social constructions that prevail in them. This kind of reflection let a large result concerning father Ibiana’s letters, the sisters’ of charity ones, the statute ruling the Charity Houses, the poems of the charity sisters published in the Voz da Religião no Cariri newspaper, and the moral maxima written down by father Ibiapina. All considered, we are sure that these core issues granted a better comprehension of what happens among the members of the group and between them and their counterparts. / Esta tese teve como intuito analisar as relações socioculturais existentes nas Casas de Caridade do Padre Ibiapina que contribuíram para sua obra social, dando ênfase à figura de Maria nos moldes da Mariologia Clássica. Para tanto, foram utilizadas como ferramentas de análise as reflexões trazidas pela história da recepção em diálogo com alguns autores que trazem o gênero como categoria analítica. Contudo, para um maior aprofundamento das interações sociais vivenciadas pelo grupo em estudo e, sobretudo, da religiosidade que embasa as suas relações, foi feita uma retomada dos estudos de, dentre outros autores, Bourdieu, Geertz, Berge e Foucault, tendo em vista que, a partir destes, foi possível estudar com profundidade a tessitura das construções sociais ali predominantes. Tal reflexão se deu em constante recorrência às cartas do Padre Ibiapina, das Irmãs de Caridade e dos beatos, ao estatuto que regia as Casas de Caridade do Padre Ibiapina, aos versos compostos pelas Irmãs de Caridade presentes no jornal Voz da Religião no Cariri, às máximas morais escritas pelo Padre Ibiapina, com um estudo voltado para a cultura brasileira e, especialmente, a nordestina, bem como a visão de Maria enquanto alvo de devoção e modelo de santidade, por serem estes pontos basilares para a garantia da compreensão do grupo em questão.

The present Ph.D. dissertation proceeds from poetry on the theme of the Virgin Mary which blossomed for several decades during the Romantic era and is dedicated to the use of its virgin and maternal themes in the work of C.J.L. Almqvist and P.D.A. Atterbom. The first chapter discusses Almqvist's description of the perfect complementary unity of male and female - and divine and human - in his juvenile work Murnis (1819). In this sexually explicit work, theology and religious experience is eroticized while sexuality is sacralized. In Amorina (1822), a burgeoning transformation of Almqvist's "wholeness" vision can be observed. While wholeness can only be achieved through the perfect union of man and woman in Murnis, Amorina emerges as a perfect figure in and of herself. In the second chapter, the figure of Tintomara in Drottningens juvelsmycke (1835) is analyzed. In this novel, the dream of the merging of "twoness" into "oneness" seems to have been abandoned in favour of an experiment, wherein the unity of masculinity and femininity is realized in one single individual, the androgynous Tintomara. Despite the fact that the novel's androgynous idea is formulated with direct reference to Plato's Symposium, the significance of Jakob Böhme's speculations on androgyny are also emphasized here. The third chapter deals with the poetry about Mary written by Almqvist, especially Isidoros av Tadmor and Marjam (1839). Almqvist's image of Mary is characterized in terms of "perfection" and "complexity". In Marjam, this complexity is expressed both through the drama's upholding of the paradoxical content of the dogma of the Virgin Mary and the main theme of the double drama, the tension between the earthly and the eschatological family. The fourth and fifth chapters of this dissertation are dedicated to the maternal theme in the work of P.D.A. Atterbom. I proceed from the hypothesis that the transformations which the figure of Mary undergoes reflect a tension between Romantic syncretism and classic Christianity. I analyze four texts by Atterbom in which this conflict is particularly apparent. In Atterbom's prose draft for his fairy play Fågel blå (1818), as in his sonnets dedicated to Mary (1817-18), I discern a shift away from Romantic syncretism and toward more Biblical patterns. In the fairy play Lycksalighetens ö (1824-27), this tension emerges anew in the two Nyx epiphanies in the piece. The elegy "Ave Maria" (1831) comprises the clearest example of the shift in Atterbom's writing toward classical Mariology. In the conclusion, Almqvist's and Atterbom's respective thematic use of Mary - where she is portrayed as a complex, transgressive figure - is contrasted with an early example of Swedish Biedermeier poetry, Carl von Zeipel's "Jesus Christus. Evangeliska romanser" (1822), where Mary is placed in the context of the little, idyllic family. / digitalisering@umu

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This diploma thesis entitled Marian sermons of Anthony of Padua is based on the translation of four speeches to the Marian Feasts given by Anthony of Padua a Franciscan theologian and preacher (1195-1231). These speeches belong to the cycle Sermones dominicales and have never before been translated into Czech. The work includes insights about Anthony of Padua himself and his relationship to Franciscan spirituality. Important too, is a theological analysis of the sermons with particular focus of Anthony of Padua's conception of the Virgin Mary. In addition to focus on on the author and his views there is particular attention paid to the stylistic and the linguistic techniques used in his work.