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MARY OF EGYPT «I am a Woman and I am Naked»

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

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