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Margaret R. Miles

Author of The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought

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Margaret R. Miles was Bussey Professor of Historical Theology at the Harvard University Divinity School

Includes the names: Margaret R. Miles, Margaret Ruth Miles

Also includes: Margaret Miles (2)

Works by Margaret R. Miles

The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought (2004) 105 copies
Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West (1989) 100 copies
Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies (1996) 82 copies, 1 review
Image As Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christian and Secular Culture (1985) 67 copies
Immaculate and Powerful, the Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality (1985) — Editor — 52 copies
Practicing Christianity: Critical Perspectives for an Embodied Spirituality (1988) 48 copies, 1 review
Fullness of Life: Historical Foundations for a New Asceticism (1981) 35 copies
A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750 (2008) 29 copies
Desire and Delight: A New Reading of Augustine's Confessions (1992) 22 copies
Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome (1999) 21 copies
The Image and Practice of Holiness (1989) 20 copies
Augustine on the Body (1979) 13 copies
Augustine and the fundamentalist's daughter (2011) 13 copies
Rereading Historical Theology: Before, During, and After Augustine (2008) 9 copies
Reading for life : beauty, pluralism, and responsibility (1997) 6 copies
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Augustine's City of God: A Critical Guide (2012) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts (Oxford Handbooks) (2014) — Contributor — 20 copies
Augustine and Psychology (2012) — Contributor — 3 copies
Christian Thought in the Twenty-First Century: Agenda for the Future (2012) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Practicing Christianity : critical perspectives for an embodied spirituality by Margaret R. Miles
A critique of three metaphors of the Christian life (Imitation of Christ, Pilgrimage, and Ascent), followed by a critique of Christian spiritual practices (asceticism, worship/sacraments, service, prayer, and suffering). While I didn't agree with all her critiques when I read the book as a Christian, and I would be far more critical now than she is, I did find her analysis of the underpinnings what we would now probably call memes of Christian spirituality to be very interesting. Her show more methodology could be applied to any number of the memeplexes. show less
Nov 12, 2010 (Edited)
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Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies by Margaret R. Miles
Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies by Margaret R. Miles (1997)
Aug 4, 2009

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