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Mary Magdalene revealed : the first apostle, her feminist gospel & the Christianity we haven't tried yet / Meggan Watterson.

by Watterson, Meggan, 1974-

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Hay House, Inc., 2019.

Mary Magdalene, Saint.

Gospel of Mary -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Women and religion.

9781401954901 (hc.)

239 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references pages (231-234).

Introduction: The eye of the heart -- The first power: Darkness. What we have forgotten -- The second power: Craving. The girl who baptized herself -- The third power: Ignorance. What happens in the wilderness -- The fourth power: Craving for death. A ship without sails -- The fifth power: Enslavement to the physical body. The princess of mercy -- The sixth power: The false peace of the flesh. The whole point is that it never ends -- The seventh power: The compulsion of rage. What we have remembered -- Afterword: I believe Mary.

"The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson leads us verse by verse through Mary's gospel to illuminate the powerful teachings it contains. A gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the gospels that the Christian Bible contains, was buried deep in the Egyptian desert after an edict was sent out in the 4th century to have all copies of it destroyed. Fortunately, some rebel monks were wise enough to refuse-and thanks to their disobedience and spiritual bravery, we have several manuscripts of the only gospel that was written in the name of a woman: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Mary's gospel reveals a radical love that sits at the heart of the Christian story. Her gospel says that we are not sinful; we are not to feel ashamed or unworthy for being human. In fact, our purpose is to be fully human, to be a 'true human being' - that is, a person who has remembered that, yes, we are a messy, limited ego, and we are also a limitless soul. And all we need to do is to turn inward (again and again); to meditate, like Mary Magdalene, in the way her gospel directs us, so that we can see past the ego of our own little lives to what's more real, and lasting, and infinite, and already here, within. With searing clarity, Watterson explains how and why Mary Magdalene came to be portrayed as the penitent prostitute and relates a more historically and theologically accurate depiction of who Mary was within the early Christ movement. And she shares how this discovery of Mary's gospel has allowed her to practice, and to experience, a love that never ends, a love that transforms everything."--From publisher.

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