Typologies of Marian Maternity

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198812487.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Victoria Brownlee

Keyword(s):

Aemilia Lanyer ◽

New Covenant ◽

The Bible ◽

Spiritual Issue ◽

Dorothy Leigh

Chapter 5 focuses on female readings of the fleshly connection between Christ and his mother, Mary. For Aemilia Lanyer and Dorothy Leigh, Mary’s material labour had spiritual consequences because, in delivering Christ, she delivered God’s plan for salvation and inaugurated the new covenant which atones for Eve’s sin. Yet a typological reading of the scriptures also allows these writers to suggest that the new covenant initiates a form of maternity that has, within the Christological dispensation, profound spiritual resonance. For if, as Salve Deus and The Mothers Blessing advocate, the Bible is read typologically, Mary’s maternity becomes a mechanism of deliverance for all women, and inaugurates a form of maternity rich in spiritual issue and consequence.

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Literal and Spiritual Births: Mary as Mother in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing

Renaissance Quarterly ◽

10.1086/685127 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 68 (4) ◽

pp. 1297-1326 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Victoria Brownlee

Keyword(s):

Women Writers ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

Women's Writing ◽

Aemilia Lanyer ◽

New Covenant ◽

The Bible ◽

Dorothy Leigh ◽

Women’S Writing

AbstractMindful of the complex position of Christ’s mother, Mary, in post-Reformation Europe, this article examines how two women writers read Mary’s fleshly relationship with Christ. Reading the Bible typologically, Aemilia Lanyer and Dorothy Leigh determine that Mary’s material labor has spiritual consequences, because, in delivering Christ, she delivers God’s plan for salvation and inaugurates the new covenant. But, interpreting Marian maternity in this way, Lanyer’sSalve Deus Rex Judaeorumand Leigh’sThe Mothers Blessingalso suggest that the new covenant initiates a form of maternity that has sustained spiritual resonance for all women and has profound implications for the female writer.

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Lyric Poetry

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672806.013.41 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Elizabeth Clarke ◽

Simon Jackson

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Lyric Poetry ◽

John Donne ◽

Early Modern England ◽

Song Of Songs ◽

George Herbert ◽

Aemilia Lanyer ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Bible ◽

Religious Lyric

Legitimized by the poetry of the Bible, devotional lyric verse—crossing denominational lines, often combining Reformation spirituality with Renaissance rhetoric—flourished in early modern England. Poets like Mary and Philip Sidney and George Herbert modelled their work on the Book of Psalms, at times imitating the prosodic simplicity of the Sternhold and Hopkins metrical psalms, elsewhere adapting the sophisticated stanzaic variety of the Marot/Beze Psalter. Women like Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Southwell used the Song of Songs to express their devotion to Christ. The ‘mystical marriage’ was often used by women such as Barbara Mackay, who produced a version of the Song of Songs in manuscript, and Elizabeth Melville, who parodied Petrarchan poetry; and it was employed in shocking fashion by John Donne. The religious lyric exists on the borderline of public and private: in conclusion, we present such lyrics as social and occasional, and examine their relationship with music.

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The Covenant Concept in Scottish Theology and Politics and its Legacy

Scottish Journal of Theology ◽

10.1017/s0036930600013971 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 225-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

James B. Torrance

Keyword(s):

New Testament ◽

New Covenant ◽

The Bible ◽

The New Testament

One of the most significant words of the Bible is the word ‘covenant’. We read about God making a covenant with Abraham, renewing that covenant at Sinai, about David making a covenant with Jonathan, and again with the elders at Hebron when he became king. Jeremiah speaks of a day when God will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and in the New Testament, Jesus is presented to us as the Mediator of the New Covenant: ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood.’

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No romperé jamás ml alianza con vosotros (Jue 2,1)

Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval ◽

10.21071/refime.v10i.9247 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 53

Author(s):

Sor Ionel MIHALOVICI

Keyword(s):

New Covenant ◽

The Bible ◽

God's Call

God's Covenant with men contitutes the essence of Revelation. The first text to give account of a Covenant is the narration of Creation and the last one appears in the Gospels, when Jesus announces the New Covenant through his blood. Nevertheless, there are not two covenants, an Old one and a New one. In the Bible, the different narrations of covenants are a renewal of the unique Covenant. It's man who is summoned to change his attitude in order to answer, always in a more profound way, to God's call.

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