Marian Images: Madonna and Hodigitria

The Madonna of Western religious art and the articulation of Marian theology is enunciated in Kathleen C. Ford's piece entitled Portrait of Our Lady. This paper is a companion piece focusing on the Hodigitria, Mother of God, an Eastern liturgical icon and its theological and psychological influ...

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Main Author: Fredrickson, Regina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2004]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2004, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 151-163
Further subjects:B twinship transference
B Madonna
B Hodigitria
B interpathy
B Metaphor
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Summary:The Madonna of Western religious art and the articulation of Marian theology is enunciated in Kathleen C. Ford's piece entitled Portrait of Our Lady. This paper is a companion piece focusing on the Hodigitria, Mother of God, an Eastern liturgical icon and its theological and psychological influence on the clinical treatment of a young woman. The client's recurrent turtle metaphor is discussed for clinical significance. In both portraits, Madonna and Hodigitria, the centrality of the mother image is essential. Kathleen emphasized the influence of the Great Mother Archetype in art and religion and the ancillary theme of containing and contained. The emphasis in this companion paper is the mother image as theologically and psychologically relational, communal, interpathic and companioning.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/B:JORH.0000022400.50286.e7