For the Beauty of the Earth: Women, Sacramentality, and Justice

by Susan A. Ross

Beauty has long posed problems for religion. While Christianity has celebrated God's incarnation in human flesh, physical beauty has nevertheless been suspect. Women in particular have been the objects of ecclesiastical suspicion with regard to their bodies and their beauty. They have been kept out of sanctuaries, denounced for their love of colorful clothing, feared as temptresses. Yet beauty has often been understood positively in feminine terms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809144220
• ISBN13: 9780809144228
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 6.7"