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Mary in early Christian faith and devotion /

0300219539

9780300219531

0300217218

9780300217216

Mary in early Christian faith and devotion /

[Book]

Stephen J. Shoemaker.

New Haven :

Yale University Press,

2016.

1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : mapping a new approach to early Marian piety -- A virgin unspotted : devotion to Mary in the first two centuries -- Mother of God and mother of mysteries : the third century -- Mother of the great cherub of light : the Book of Mary's repose -- A cult following : the Six Books Dormition Apocryphon -- The memory of Mary : the fourth and early fifth centuries -- The scepter of orthodoxy : the cult of the virgin and the Council of Ephesus.

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For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strangely overlooked despite, or perhaps because of, her centrality in Christian devotion. Gathering together fresh information from often neglected sources, including early liturgical texts and Dormition and Assumption apocrypha, Stephen Shoemaker reveals that Marian devotion played a far more vital role in the development of early Christian belief and practice than has been previously recognized, finding evidence that dates back to the latter half of the second century. Through extensive research, the author is able to provide a fascinating background to the hitherto inexplicable "explosion" of Marian devotion that historians and theologians have pondered for decades, offering a wide-ranging study that challenges many conventional beliefs surrounding the subject of Mary, Mother of God.

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Mary in early Christian faith and devotion.

9780300217216

Mary,Devotion to-- History.

English, Anastasia M.

Mary

Church history-- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Christianity.

Church history-- Primitive and early church.

Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Frühchristentum

Marienverehrung

Mariologie

Philosophy & Religion.

RELIGION-- Christian Theology-- Christology.

Religion.

REL-- 067040

Shoemaker, Stephen J.,1968-

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