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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Virgin birth"”.
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Reclaiming the virgin birth narrative in Latin America feminist liberation theology
… Church fathers' andocentric miss-reading of the Virgin Birth narrative. Secondly, it looks at feminist theologians' critical analyses of Marian devotion in Latin America as being about the veneration of an archetypal figure working in the interests of patriarchal social control and the oppression …
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Apocalypse: a study of myth and archetype in the novels of Calixthe Beyala
… from biblical myths such as the flood and the virgin birth, myths that are dominated by the presence of apocalypse. Thus, in Beyala’s works as in the Bible, the passage from Genesis to Revelation, from the beginning of the Bible to the end, parallels not just the hero’s journey as understood by …
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A critical examination of the infancy narratives in the Gospels according to Matthew and Luke
… by a preoccupation with the doctrine of the virgin birth. Another area of preoccupation has been the linguistic origins of the Lucan infancy narrative. In more recent times the theory of midrashic creation has become popular. Redaction-criticism has brought the first step towards an exegesis …
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The legitimacy of Jesus : an Afrocentric reading of the birth of Jesus
… conception and not about a miraculous virginal conception. It challenges her claim that the intention of the evangelists was to transmit the tradition that Jesus, the Messiah, was illegitimately conceived during the time when Mary, his mother, was still betrothed to Joseph. My argument …