Comment and/or Quote
posted April 23rd, 2007 at 8:02 pm by Betty
Perhaps the fastest way to begin our conversation of the two new books, The Secrets of Mary Magdalene and The Magdalene Mystique , is to post comments and quotes. I’ll start with quotes from the first chapters of both of these books. Join in the fun and comment and/or quote. (See the earlier post entitled “Two Groups reading about Mary Magdalene” where I mentioned we would be experimenting with an online book study).
Here are my quotes:
Elaine Pagels, page 6 of Secrets: The author of the Gospel of Philip “sees Mary Magdalene as a powerful spiritual presence, as one who manifests the divine as it appears in feminine form — above all as divine Wisdom, and the Holy Spirit.”
James Carroll, page 31 of Secrets: “the figure who most embodies the imaginative and theological conflict over the place of women in the “church,” as it had begun to call itself, is Mary Magdalene.”
James Carroll, page 33, Secrets: Although Jesus rejected male dominance, as symbolized in his commissioning of Mary Magdalene to spread word of the Resurrection, male dominance gradually made a powerful comback within the Jesus movement. For that to happen, the commissioning of Mary Magdalene had to be reinvented.”
Magdalene Mystique, page 1: “We are a spiritual people on a quest to reclaim our true humanness.”
Magdalene Mystique, page 2: “Our community has begun to consider the soul damage inflicted on both men and women by an old way of thinking and feeling and its emphasis on ‘my group.’ We’ve recognized that we must begin the work of respecting all peoples. We must become shared peace.”
Please comment and/or quote. Hope you will join us in this experiment.
the secrets of mary magdalene