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In recent years, Mary has stepped out of the closet of piety and devotion and become the subject of serious theological study. For too long Mary was an icon for the repression of liberatiowomen by a male-dominated In recent years, Mary has stepped out of the closet of piety and devotion and become the subject of academia. For too long, argues the author, Mary was an icon for the repression and subjugation of women by a male-dominated church, but now Mary is given a modern look. She is portrayed as an icon of liberationist women, a symbol of the humanism of the modern world. Jung has argued that the definition of the doctrine of the assumption was the most important religious event since the Reformation: the feminine principle has been absorbed into the Godhead. In her book, Sarah Jane Boss argues that Christian theology should conceive of this new created order, she claims is already implicit in Marian doctrine and devotion.
