RT Article
T1 Introduction: On Maternality, Between Theology and Sexuality
JF Theology & sexuality
VO 19
IS 3
SP 195
OP 202
A1 Holmes, Emily A. 1974-
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779665652
AB The introduction to the special issue situates the five following essays in the context of historical and contemporary theological reflection on maternality. It addresses the fraught connection between sexuality and maternality in the Christian theological imagination and argues that the maternal body has often functioned as a bridge between the opposed arenas of Word and flesh, God and humanity, and eternity and time. The introduction concludes by using the figure of the Virgin Mary as a lens to consider the theological themes of birth, grief, the incarnation, sacrifice, and Eucharist. Mary’s body, site of the incarnation, allows connection, mediation, contiguity, and congress to occur. As such, it also functions as a bridge between theology and sexuality.
K1 Irigaray
K1 Kristeva
K1 Hadewijch
K1 Incarnation
K1 Virgin Mary
K1 maternality
DO 10.1179/1355835814Z.00000000034