Many people would say that was something that went wrong with Christianity. She is seen almost as a goddess figure, possibly derived from the fact that many Pagans became Christians in the early centuries of the church and they believed in goddesses, so Mary became to them the goddess. Many people, Protestants particularly, object to the figure that Mary has become.
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Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Pagan images of Mary In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Reflecting on stained glass images of Mary in a Norfolk church, Sister Wendy Beckett thinks that Mary's popularity in the Middle Ages was due to her depiction as a caring mother. Often when details are missing, tradition will do its own part in trying to fill in those details and imagine those details to make that person's life a little bit fuller and understand a bit more about them. One of the reasons that Mary has maintained her popularity is that there were all the makings in the biblical text for a fascinating story, and yet with much of the detail missing.
And one of the most important women in that story is Mary, of course, and that's why it's worth hearing her voice in a fresh way. In a contemporary world we want to reimagine Christian origins and involve women much more.
The interesting thing for modern scholars is that she's being reassessed because we've become much more sensitive to female characters in the biblical story and because female characters in the biblical story are often quieter than the men. She's always been absolutely key, right from that moment early in Luke's Gospel when she's told "Blessed are you amongst women". Mary has always been a central figure in Christianity. A central figureĬhristians at the tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem, by Jean Lecomte du Noüy, 1871 © In this section, six academic experts explain what we know about the life and times of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
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