and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge

Timothy Winter

en förutsättning för deltagande i det liv som pågår i offentligheten

Heliga Birgitta

Mary Magdalene: The Woman Whom Jesus Loved Julböcker unga and culture is the worldThe figure of Mary Magdalen has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. She is portrayed in the Gospels as a neurotic woman, possibly with a past, yet she is the first to encounter the risen Christ and he charges her with the responsibility of proclaiming the resurrection. She is therefore Christianity's first evangelist a difficult concept for churches with exclusively male hierarchies who prefer to think of her as just a reformed prostitute.