The Making of Jewish and Christian worship

Abstract

With Ines de la Cruz and Theology of Beauty George H.Tavard presents an investigation of theology of this Latin American poet. His programme is important because she was first woman of this continent to assert right of women to study to full extent of their capacities. An intelligent and intellectual woman, Juana Ines was eager to live life of scholarship and felt a great aversion to matrimony, which directed her to enter convent in 1667. Tavard provides an analysis both of theological ideas that Juana Ines expressed in poetry and prose and of conclusions, provisional or definitive, she may have reached about herself and about humanity. Through close study of many of her clearly authenticated works - her didactic poem, Primero Sueno (First Dream); her poems in honor of saints; her religious drama; her poems in honor of Christ and Virgin; her lyric verse on devotional themes; her prose writings on religious topics - Tavard draws out Sor Junan's conception of world and soul, her ideas about saints, her understanding of Virgin, and her Christology. He offers coherent theological and spiritual argument for Juana's renunciation of further writing in 1692; speculation is rife on topic of Juana's entry into silence at height of her career. In discussing shape of her theological imagination, Tavard concludes that for Juana, the physical and spiritual beauty of creatures, gift of God's love, acts as theopany through which divine glory is perceived.

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