Selene Zorzi
MARY OF EGYPT «I am a Woman and I am Naked»
"Sono una donna e sono nuda"
1ª edizione gennaio 2020
Collana
PAROLE PER LO SPIRITO
Formato
13,5 x 21 cm - BROSSURA CON ALETTE
Disponibile anche in formato eBook
Numero pagine 144
CDU
226Q 185
ISBN/EAN
9788892220652
In the hottest hour of the day, while praying in the loneliness
of the desert, the upright ascetic monk Zosima glimpses someone. It is a woman, Mary, who had led a dissolute life and then
accidentally joined a group of pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem.
Mary converted in front of the Holy Sepulcher, then she decided to live the rest of her existence in the desert as a penitent.
Encountering Mary transforms Zosima. Messing up the boundaries between male and female ascetic models will allow Zosima access to true holiness.
Maybe Mary of Egypt never existed, but since the VI century
countless monks and nuns have recognized themselves in her
story. Through Mary of Egypt we can see the complex world
of ascetic movements of the first millennium and the spiritual
symbols that have characterised the spirituality of Christians
over the centuries.
Selene Zorzi (Rome, 1970) has studied theology at the Pontifical
Athenaeum of Saint Anselm in Rome and philosophy at the “Sapienza” University in Rome. She got a Ph.D. in Sacred Theology
from the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm in Rome. She is
a professor of Patrology and History of Theology at the Theological Institute of Marche (Ancona). She is a member of the Coordination of Italian Female Theologians. With Edizioni San Paolo
she has published Anthropology and Spiritual Theology (2014).
SELLING POINTS
• Mary of Egypt is one of the fundamental references for understanding the female monasticism of the origins.
• Ecumenic figure.
• The volume is part of the Mothers of the Faith series.
AN EMBLEMATIC FIGURE IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH