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    Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
    Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
    Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
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    Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt

    By Sonia Velázquez

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    A meditation on holiness and beauty through the study of Saint Mary of Egypt.
     
    Saint Mary of Egypt has fascinated theologians, poets, and artists since the seventh century. Her story is richly evocative, encompassing sin and sanctity, concupiscence and asceticism, youth and old age. In Promiscuous Grace, Sonia Velázquez thinks with Saint Mary of Egypt about the relationship between beauty and holiness. Drawing on an archive spanning Spanish medieval poetry, Baroque paintings, seventeenth-century hagiography, and Balzac’s Le chef-d’œuvre  inconnu, Velázquez argues for the importance of the senses on the surface of religious texts on her way to revealing why the legend of Saint Mary of Egypt still matters today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateMay 19, 2023
    ISBN9780226826097
    Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt

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