Magdalene, The Complete Series

Magdalene, The Complete Series
Author: Kristen Ashley
Publisher: Rock Chick LLC
Total Pages: 3691
Release: 2019-03-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Explore three second-change romances set in the fictional town of Magdalene, Maine, including The Will, Soaring and The Time in Between. The Will - Josephine Malone knew there was only one person she could love and trust: her grandmother. So Josephine donned a disguise to keep all others at bay. There was nothing disguised about Jake Spear. Including the fact he made bad decisions about who to give his love. But there was one person who knew how to lead them to happiness and intent on doing it. Even if she had to do it as her final wish. Soaring - American heiress Amelia Hathaway needs to start anew. Her boxes aren’t unpacked when she meets Mickey Donovan, a man so beautiful Amelia takes one look at Mickey and knows she wants it all from him. The problem is, she finds out swiftly that he’s friendly, he’s kind, but he doesn’t want everything back. The Time in Between - Cady comes to Magdalene to start the next chapter in her life. A chapter that began eighteen years ago but had a heartbreaking ending. Coert Yeager has learned to live without the girl who entered his life right when she shouldn’t and exited delivering a crippling blow. Even if Coert wants to avoid her, he can’t. A fire in town sparks a different kind of flame that won’t be ignored.

Magdalene, The Complete Series

Magdalene, The Complete Series
Author: Kristen Ashley
Publisher: Rock Chick LLC
Total Pages: 3691
Release: 2019-03-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Explore three second-change romances set in the fictional town of Magdalene, Maine, including The Will, Soaring and The Time in Between. The Will - Josephine Malone knew there was only one person she could love and trust: her grandmother. So Josephine donned a disguise to keep all others at bay. There was nothing disguised about Jake Spear. Including the fact he made bad decisions about who to give his love. But there was one person who knew how to lead them to happiness and intent on doing it. Even if she had to do it as her final wish. Soaring - American heiress Amelia Hathaway needs to start anew. Her boxes aren’t unpacked when she meets Mickey Donovan, a man so beautiful Amelia takes one look at Mickey and knows she wants it all from him. The problem is, she finds out swiftly that he’s friendly, he’s kind, but he doesn’t want everything back. The Time in Between - Cady comes to Magdalene to start the next chapter in her life. A chapter that began eighteen years ago but had a heartbreaking ending. Coert Yeager has learned to live without the girl who entered his life right when she shouldn’t and exited delivering a crippling blow. Even if Coert wants to avoid her, he can’t. A fire in town sparks a different kind of flame that won’t be ignored.

Unveiling Mary Magdalene

Unveiling Mary Magdalene
Author: Liz Curtis Higgs
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009-02-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 030755211X

The veil has been lifted. Discover the Gospel truth about the most myth-understood woman of the New Testament. Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute? An adulteress? The wife of Jesus? An ancient goddess? Liz Curtis Higgs, best-selling author of Bad Girls of the Bible and Really Bad Girls of the Bible, combines heartfelt contemporary fiction with extensive biblical research to bring to life the real Mary Magdalene of the Bible. With her own eyes, she saw him. With her own ears, she heard him. With her own hands, she touched him. Unveiling Mary Magdalene opens with the fictional journey of Mary Margaret Delaney, a madwoman adrift in modern Chicago. Her moving story, closely paralleling the biblical account, is followed by a verse-by-verse study of the first-century Mary Magdalene and her life-changing encounters with the Christ. “Liz has done it again! What hope and promise this will bring.” —Kay Arthur “The unforgettable portrait of a courageous woman.” —Rebecca St. James

Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints

Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints
Author: Theresa Coletti
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2013-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0812201647

A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medieval debates about the sources of spiritual authority and women's contribution to salvation history than did Mary Magdalene, and perhaps nowhere in later medieval England was cultural preoccupation with the Magdalene stronger than in fifteenth-century East Anglia. Looking to East Anglian texts including the N-Town Plays, The Book of Margery Kempe, The Revelations of Julian of Norwich, and Bokenham's Legend of Holy Women, Theresa Coletti explores how the gendered symbol of Mary Magdalene mediates tensions between masculine and feminine spiritual power, institutional and individual modes of religious expression, and authorized and unauthorized forms of revelation and sacred speech. Using the Digby play Mary Magdalene as her touchstone, Coletti engages a wide variety of textual and visual resources to make evident the discursive and material ties of East Anglian dramatic texts and feminine religion to broader traditions of cultural commentary and representation. In bringing the disciplinary perspectives of literary history and criticism, gender studies, and social and religious history to bear on specific local instances of dramatic practice, Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints highlights the relevance of Middle English dramatic discourse to the dynamic religious climate of late medieval England. In doing so, the book decisively challenges the marginalization of drama within medieval English studies, elucidates vernacular theater's kinship with influential late medieval religious texts and institutions, and articulates the changing possibilities for sacred representation in the decades before the Reformation.

Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550

Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550
Author: Penny Howell Jolly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351911236

Examining innovations in Mary Magdalene imagery in northern art 1430 to 1550, Penny Jolly explores how the saint’s widespread popularity drew upon her ability to embody oppositions and embrace a range of paradoxical roles: sinner-prostitute and saint, erotic seductress and holy prophet. Analyzing paintings by Rogier van der Weyden, Quentin Massys, and others, Jolly investigates artists’ and audiences’ responses to increasing religious tensions, expanding art markets, and changing roles for women. Using cultural ideas concerning the gendered and pregnant body, Jolly reveals how dress confirms the Magdalene’s multivalent nature. In some paintings, her gown’s opening laces betray her wantonness yet simultaneously mark her as Christ’s spiritually pregnant Bride; elsewhere ’undress’ reconfirms her erotic nature while paradoxically marking her penitence; in still other works, exotic finery expresses her sanctity while celebrating Antwerp’s textile industry. New image types arise, as when the saint appears as a lovesick musician playing a lute or as a melancholic contemplative, longing for Christ. Some depictions emphasize her intercessory role through innovative pictorial strategies that invite performative viewing or relate her to the mythological Pandora and Italian Renaissance Neoplatonism. Throughout, the Magdalene’s ambiguities destabilize readings of her imagery while engaging audiences across a broad social and religious spectrum.

Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque

Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2012-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004232249

Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene’s character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next.

Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture

Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture
Author: Peter Loewen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2014-03-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135081913

This innovative and multidisciplinary collection visits representations and interpretations of Mary Magdalene in the medieval and early modern periods, questioning major scholarly assumptions behind the examination of female saints and their depictions in medieval artworks, literature, and music. Mary Magdalene’s many and various characterizations from reformed prostitute to conversion-figure to devotee of Christ to "apostle to the apostles" to spiritual advisor to the Prince of Marseilles to hermit in the desert, to list just a few examples, mean that the many conflicted representations of Mary Magdalene apply to a staggering variety of cultural material, including art, liturgy, music, literature, theology, hagiography, and the historical record. Furthermore, Mary Magdalene has grown into an extremely popular and controversial figure due to recent books and movies concerning her, and due to a groundswell of general speculation concerning her relationship to Jesus: was she his acquaintance, follower, companion, wife, family-member, or lover? This volume employs a broad spectrum of theoretical methodologies in order to present poststructuralist, postcolonial, postmodernist, hagiographic, and feminist readings of the figure of Mary Magdalene, addressing and interrogating her conflicting roles and the precise relationship between her sacred and secular representations.

The Magdalene Version: Secret Wisdom from a Gnostic Mystery School

The Magdalene Version: Secret Wisdom from a Gnostic Mystery School
Author: Stuart Wilson
Publisher: Ozark Mountain Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release:
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Here is the real voice of Mary Magdalene, giving secret teachings from her Mystery School! During the years that followed the crucifixion, a Gnostic group met in Midsummer Gatherings on the island of Cyprus. Channeling by the angelic source Alariel has revealed eight Keynote Speeches by Mary Magdalene during these Gatherings. These speeches show a profound understanding of the Way that Jeshua taught. This is forbidden knowledge—forbidden by the Church because it could lead to the enlightenment and empowerment of those who heard it and applied it in their lives. The Pure Transmission which forms the teachings of Mary Magdalene has been restored to us through angelic intervention at the end of the planetary cycle. These teachings will change your perception of Mary Magdalene forever!

Magdalene's Lost Legacy

Magdalene's Lost Legacy
Author: Margaret Starbird
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2003-05-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1591438683

In Magdalene’s Lost Legacy, author Margaret Starbird decodes the symbolic numbers embedded in the original Greek phrases of the New Testament--revealing the powerful presence of the feminine divine. The New Testament contains wide use of gematria, a literary device that allows the sums of certain phrases to produce sacred numbers. Exploring the hidden meanings behind these numbers, Starbird reveals that the union between Jesus and his bride, Mary Magdalene, formed a sacred partnership that was the cornerstone of the earliest Christian community. Magdalene’s Lost Legacy demonstrates how the crucial teaching of the sacred marriage that unites masculine and feminine principles--the heiros gamos--is the partnership model for life on our planet and the ultimate blueprint for civilization. Starbird’s research challenges the concept that Christ was celibate and establishes Mary Magdalene as the human incarnation of the sacred bride. The author also explains the true meaning of the “666” prophesied in the Book of Revelation. Through this potent reclaiming of the lost legacy of Mary Magdalene, Margaret Starbird offers the opportunity to restore the divine feminine to her rightful role as bride, beloved, and sacred partner.