2013 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholar Award First-Place Winner: Collyridian Déjà Vu: The Trajectory of Redaction of the Markers of Mary's Liturgical Leadership

Kateusz, Ally

doi:10.2979/jfemistudreli.29.2.75

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“…35 This text describes Mary with several markers of liturgical leadership such as raising her arms to lead the prayer, preaching the gospel, exorcizing demons, setting out the censer of incense to God, and sending out women evangelists with books, markers that later scribes often redacted or excised. 36 Most important to the current discussion, however, the fifthcentury palimpsest text includes a passage that portrays Mary baptizing two very sick women, one filled with leprosy and the other with a demon constantly strangling her. It says that Mary "took water and sealed them," and "sprinkled" it upon their bodies, and they were healed.…”

Section: Tertullian On Prescription Againstmentioning

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Holy Spirit Mother, the Baptismal Womb, and the Walesby Tank: Excavating Early Christian Women Baptizers

Kateusz¹

2022

Feminist Theology

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Writers starting with Tertullian and the author behind the Didascalia Apostolorum attest to the presence of early Christian women baptizers, as do a variety of later writers. The early Christian tradition of Holy Spirit as female and mother, her womb the font of new birth (Jn 3.3-5), helps illuminate why women may have been seen as the midwives, or ministers, of this birthing ritual. Likewise, the identification of the font as a womb adds to Jocelyn Toynbee’s 1964 proposal that a scene on the Walesby Tank, a fourth-century Romano-British baptismal font, portrayed two clothed women assisting a nude female neophyte at her baptism.

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Holy Spirit Mother, the Baptismal Womb, and the Walesby Tank: Excavating Early Christian Women Baptizers

Kateusz¹

2022

Feminist Theology

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“…The earliest Dormitian manuscripts, probably composed after the Council of Chalcedon about the 5th century, claim a narrative of the death of Jesus's mother Mary, and include various additions to this basic narrative. Mary, it seems, had to be completed through references to her ministry (Kateusz 2013). Additions regarding her ecclesial authority and worthiness of female respectability were made.…”

Section: Mary As a Feminist Toolmentioning

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Revisiting the incomplete Mary

Potgieter

2020

In die Skriflig / In Luce Verbi

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It has taken two millennia to arrive at the Roman Catholic Church’s Mary – a figure similar but distinct from the biblical account of Mary. Early Christian Church history attests that Mary was accorded titles which did not reflect in the New Testament. These titles served to buttress the historical and present day claims made among the Roman Catholic Church’s faithful. The most influential title for Mary accepted by the Christian Church was that of Theotokos. For classical theology, this title affirmed and sharpened the definition of the undivided divinity and humanity of Mary’s Son, Jesus. In due time, this title served to support the addition of numerous other Catholic titles for Mary such Mother of the Church, queen of heaven, and more. Consequently, traditional theology began to accommodate the inclusion of Mariology in its taxonomy. This was necessary to address assumptions and claims such as Mary’s continual virginity, assumption into heaven and mediating role(s). While Mariology depicts Catholic doctrine, it is not defined by the Magisterium. That means that it cannot be finally accepted as divinely revealed and infallibly defined. For that reason, this article suggests that the Mary of the Catholic Church is still a figure in the making in stark contrast to the Mary of the Bible and classical Protestant theology and Reformed Christian faith.

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Complementary Representations of the Care of the Self in the Gospel of Mary and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity

Saxon

2017

The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts

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2013 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholar Award First-Place Winner: Collyridian Déjà Vu: The Trajectory of Redaction of the Markers of Mary's Liturgical Leadership

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Holy Spirit Mother, the Baptismal Womb, and the Walesby Tank: Excavating Early Christian Women Baptizers

Holy Spirit Mother, the Baptismal Womb, and the Walesby Tank: Excavating Early Christian Women Baptizers

Revisiting the incomplete Mary

Complementary Representations of the Care of the Self in the Gospel of Mary and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity

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