Böcker av Professor Tina Beattie

This theological investigation explores the significance of woman in the Christian tradition from various perspectives. It is written as an open-ended quest for meaning in the form of a "theopoetics" rather than as a systematically developed argument.

The object of this book on the theology of woman is to discern the place of the female body in the Christian story of salvation, and this is done from the heart of Christian stylizations of the female - the figures of Mary and Eve.

The author journeys through Rome, following biblical events and themes in works of art, and touches on many themes on the way, including violence and power (at the Colosseum), social injustice (at St. Mary Major) and motherhood (at the icon of Our Lady in Perpetual Succour).