Secret Messages
| Author | Message |
|---|---|
| Historia. Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 1464 | The only way of expressing his beliefs probarbly would've been through his art. |
| Eddie Joining The Black Parade  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 213 | the priory of sian was prooved to be fake the guys who made it up were arrested, in like the 80s. |
| horse_riders_r_stable_ppl Motor Baby  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 847 | i dont know, i just reckon mary magdeline was some whore at the time & people put two & two together just to make things more interesting or maybe to cause the controversey! i guess we'll never know for certain. |
| sparklinggrey Jazz Hands  Age: 35 Gender: Male Posts: 327 | horse_riders_r_stable_ppl: can't believe you just said that. |
| Lovesick Melody. Bulletproof Heart  Age: 85 Gender: Female Posts: 25760 | ^^ No, she's got a valid point. Mary Magdalene is often referred to as a prostitute, but she was never called one in the New Testament. Jeffrey Kripal, a religion scholar, wrote, "Migdal was a fishing town known, or so the legend goes, for its perhaps punning connection to hairdressers (medgaddlela) and women of questionable reputation. This is as close as we get to any clear evidence that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute". According to Kripal, the identification of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute also goes back to the above mentioned sermon by Pope Gregory. In this sermon, Gregory identified Mary as peccatrix, a sinful woman, using her as a model for the repentant sinner, but he did not call her meretrix, a prostitute. However, he also identifies Mary with the adulteress brought before Jesus (as recounted in the Pericope Adulterae, John 8 ), supporting the view of 3rd and 4th century Church fathers that had already considered this sin as "being unchaste". Gregory's identification and the consideration of the woman's sin as sexual later gave rise to the image of Mary as a prostitute. This viewpoint is also espoused by much Western medieval Christian art. In many, if not most, medieval depictions, Mary Magdalene is shown as having long red hair, which she wears down over her shoulders. This was generally taken to be a sign of sexual impropriety in women at the time. The other women of the New Testament, in these same depictions, ordinarily have dark hair that is kept beneath a scarf. This disparity between depictions of women can be seen in works such as the Crucifixion paintings by the Meister des Marienlebens. This image of Mary as a prostitute was followed by many writers and artists until the 20th century. Even though it is less prevalent nowadays, the identification of Mary Magdalene with the adulteress is still accepted by some Christians. This is reflected in the Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. One possible explanation for the labelling of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute is that there has been confusion between her and Mary of Egypt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdelene |
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