Literature and the Scottish Reformation. Edited by Crawford Gribben and David George Mullan. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xix+268. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £55. 978 0 7546 67125 5
Abstract:and Jesus ' the just but merciful Friend ' (p. 94) with whom Scots empathised on a humane level, Mary had a far wider range of roles-as divine mother, as God's chosen vessel, as a divine entity not quite linked but yet not quite separate from the Holy Trinity and, most strikingly, as 'virtual co-redeemer ' (p. 186) with Jesus in interceding with God on behalf of humanity. Interdisciplinarity is a central approach in the text, and the visual element of this is supported by a collection of high quality plates, w… Show more
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