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Free Download John Shelby Spong, "Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Virgin Birth and the Treatment of Women by a Male-Dominated Church"
English | 2004 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0060675233, 0060675136 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and Episcopal bishop of Newark, NJ, challenges the doctrine of the virgin birth, tracing its development in the early Christian church and revealing its legacy in our contemporary attitudes toward women and female sexuality.

Free Download John Shelby Spong, "Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Virgin Birth and the Treatment of Women by a Male-Dominated Church"
English | 2004 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0060675233, 0060675136 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and Episcopal bishop of Newark, NJ, challenges the doctrine of the virgin birth, tracing its development in the early Christian church and revealing its legacy in our contemporary attitudes toward women and female sexuality.

Free Download Brian A. Graebe, "Vessel of Honor: The Virgin Birth and the Ecclesiology of Vatican II"
English | ISBN: 1645851176 | 2021 | 376 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The traditional claim that Mary remained a virgin during the very act of giving birth to Jesus is one of the least known and least understood aspects of Marian doctrine today. Has the contemporary Church retreated from this claim?

Free Download Late Antique Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning: Allotting the Scarlet and the Purple
by Catherine Gines Taylor
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9004346759 | 256 Pages | True PDF | 3.9 MB

Free Download Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands (Full-color Travel Guide), 28th Edition by Fodor’s Travel Guides
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1640976450 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 71.34 MB
Whether you want to sail in Tortola, snorkel at Trunk Bay Beach, or explore the Baths in Virgin Gorda, the local Fodor’s travel experts in the Virgin Islands are here to help! Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.

Free Download Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands (Full-color Travel Guide), 28th Edition by Fodor’s Travel Guides
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1640976450 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 71.34 MB
Whether you want to sail in Tortola, snorkel at Trunk Bay Beach, or explore the Baths in Virgin Gorda, the local Fodor’s travel experts in the Virgin Islands are here to help! Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.

Free Download Ayaan Hirsi Ali, "The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam"
English | 2008 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0743288343, 0743288335 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins’ cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. Hard-hitting, outspoken, and controversial, The Caged Virgin is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from a brutal religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity. It is a defiant call for clear thinking and for an Islamic Enlightenment. But it is also the courageous story of how Hirsi Ali herself fought back against everyone who tried to force her to submit to a traditional Muslim woman’s life and how she became a voice of reform.

Free Download The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400-1000: Hymns, Homilies and Hagiography by Mary B. Cunningham
English | November 11, 2021 | ISBN: 110884569X | 290 pages | PDF | 7.73 Mb
The Virgin Mary assumed a position of central importance in Byzantium. This book examines her portrayal in liturgical texts during the first six centuries of Byzantine history. Focusing on three main literary genres that celebrated this holy figure, it highlights the ways in which writers adapted their messages for different audiences. Mary is portrayed variously as defender of the imperial city, Constantinople, virginal Mother of God, and ascetic disciple of Christ. Preachers, hymnographers, and hagiographers used rhetoric to enhance Mary’s powerful status in Eastern Christian society, depicting her as virgin and mother, warrior and ascetic, human and semi-divine being. Their paradoxical statements were based on the fundamental mystery that Mary embodied: she was the mother of Christ, the Word of God, who provided him with the human nature that he assumed in his incarnation. Dr Cunningham’s authoritative study makes a major contribution to the history of Christianity.

Free Download Eliška Kubartová Polácková, "Medieval Laments of the Virgin Mary: Text, Music, Performance, and Genre Liminality "
English | ISBN: 1641894563 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Laments of the Virgin Mary represent a devotional genre that offered its clerical and lay audiences of the High and Late Middle Ages a deeply inspiring, yet at the same time ambiguous, religious experience. Through the deeply emotional and markedly animated representation of the Passion, seen as if through the eyes of the mother of God, audiences and performers were not only reminded of the redemptive power of the Cross, but encouraged to experience Christ’s sacrifice in a more personal and intimate manner. In the pious practice of

Free Download The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary: From the Visions of Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich By Anne Catherine Emmerich; Michael Palairet; Sebastian Bullough
2004 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0895550482 | EPUB | 1 MB
Incredibly revealing and edifying background of Our Lady, her parents and ancestors, St. Joseph, plus other people who figured into the coming of Christ. Many facts described about the Nativity and early life of Our Lord, as well as the final days of the Blessed Mother-all from the visions of this great mystic. Impr. 411 pgs, PB