Empowered With Mary: Affirming Full Personhood in the New Millennium

By Barbara Horton Jones

Mary is the archetype of the one who says "Yes" to God, who assents to having God direct her life. Thus, each of us is to be in some sense like Mary-we, too, are to have Christ within us, leading and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156554496X
• ISBN13: 9781565544963
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Mary a Gem of an Archetype

This book, using Mary the mother of Jesus as the chief example, deals with the balance of an individual, that is with the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspects of the individual. This book is not only helpful to young women asking the deep questions of who they are and how they fit in the universe, but is also helpful to men and women of all ages. Mary is an important feminine archetype. It is refreshing to study scripture as psychological data and to find new aspects of Mary, such as inner direction, complex thinking, poetry as revealed by her song, and her sexuality. Joseph Campbell has illustrated the power of story and myth and archetypal patterns. Caroline Myss has stated that archetypes are infinite. Mary is a powerful, numinous archetype in a powerful story that continues to speak in this new millineum. This book reads easily and is sprinkled with personal anecdotes and humor which further inhance the readibility