
Mary Magdalene
In Our Time: Religion
The Uncomfortable Themes of Mary Magdalene in the Golden Legend
Ammon: The story of Mary Magdalene in the golden legend is that she evangelizes Provence. She's acting as an apostle, Ammon says. And so you get Scholastic theologians saying, Thomas has a long discussion about just what sense isMary Magdalene an apostle because women can't preach, can they? But she does. So although the idea is theologically uncomfortable and not a good fit for the way late medieval Christianity was developing, the biblical notion of Mary presents itself in this legendary formjust as uncomfortably as it was in the New Testament.
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