Mary

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Key Passages

• Luke’s gospel mentions Mary most often, identifying her by name twelve times, all of these in the infancy narrative: Lk 1:27,30,34,38,39,41,46,56; 2:5,16,19,34
• Matthew’s gospel mentions her by name five times, four of these in the infancy narrative (Mt 1:16,18,20; 2:11) plus Mt 13:55
• Mark’s gospel names her only once (Mk 6:3) and mentions her as Jesus’ mother without naming her in Mk 3:31
• John’s gospel refers to her twice as Jesus’ mother: at the wedding at Cana (Jn 2:1-12) and standing near the cross (Jn 19:25-26)
• In the Book of Acts, Mary is among those gathered in the upper room after the ascension (Acts 1:14)
• In the Book of Revelation, some interpreters identify Mary as the “woman clothed with the sun” in Rev 12:1, 5-6

Web Links

• Wikipedia: Mary of Clopas
• Wikipedia: Mary (mother of James and John)
• Wikipedia: Mary (Romans 16:6)
• Wikipedia: Mary, mother of John Mark
• Wikipedia: Mary Magdalene
• Wikipedia: Mary of Bethany
• Wikipedia: Mary (mother of Jesus)
• Orthodoxwiki: Theotokos

Church Fathers

• Luigi Gambero: Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought | not in Logos
• On the Good of Marriage 26.35 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.3: St. Augustin: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises
• The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.6: St. Jerome: Letters and Select Works
• On the Incarnation of the Lord against Nestorius 2.2 (Proof that the Virgin Mother of God was not only Christotocos but also Theotocos, and that Christ is truly God) | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.11: Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lérins, John Cassian
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith 3.12 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.9: St. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith 4.14 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.9: St. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
• Sermon 22 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.12: Leo the Great, Gregory the Great
• Commonitory Chapter 15 (The Union of the Divine with the Human Nature took place in the very Conception of the Virgin. The appellation “The Mother of God.”) | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.11: Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lérins, John Cassian
• Commonitory Chapter 15 (The Union of the Divine with the Human Nature took place in the very Conception of the Virgin. The appellation “The Mother of God.”) | (Catholic Edition)
• Mary in the Early Church | by Mark Miravalle
• Container of the Uncontained | The Theology of St. Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation

Catholic Sources

• Queen Mother: A Biblical Theology of Mary’s Queenship | Logos resource asked about by original poster; dissertation of Edward Sri
• Queen Mother: A Biblical Theology of Mary’s Queenship (Letter & Spirit Project) | Amazon review by Carson
• Queen Mother: A Biblical Theology of Mary’s Queenship (Letter & Spirit Project) | goodreads reviews

• The Great Lady in ANE | taken from Ancient Israel: It’s Life and Institutions by Roland de Vaux
• The Blessed Virgin Mary: Queen Mother of the New Davidic Kingdom | Agape Bible Study
• Lumen gentium 51–69 | Vatican II Documents
• Catholic for a Reason II: Scripture and the Mystery of the Mother of God | Scott Hahn and Leon J. Suprenant, Jr. editors
• “The Catholic Mary”: Quite Contrary to the Bible? | by Dave Armstrong
• Scott Hahn: Hail, Holy Queen | not in Logos
• Catechism of the Catholic Church 486–511 | Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Catechism of the Catholic Church 962–975 | Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Ignacio de la Potterie: Mary in the Mystery of the Covenant | not in Logos
• Joseph Ratzinger: Incarnate of the Virgin Mary | Credo for Today: What Christians Believe
• Joseph Ratzinger: Daughter Zion: Meditations on the Church’s Marian Belief | forthcoming in Logos
• Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar: Mary: The Church at the Source | forthcoming in Logos
• Dr. Lawrence Feingold: Mary in the Old Testament | mp3 talks and blog entry by Bryan Cross on called to Communion: Reformation meets Rome
• Chapter Five – Biblical Figure of this Perfect Devotion: Rebecca and Jacob | from A Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin by Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort, The Brothers of Christian Instruction of St. Gabriel forthcoming in Logos
• Mark Shea: Mary Mother of the Son | not in Logos
• William J. Doheny and Joseph P. Kelly: Papal Documents on Mary | most of the documents themselves are in Logos
• “The Mariology of St. Thomas” by Aidan Nichols | Aquinas on Doctrine: A Critical Introduction
• Mariology: A Dogmatic Treatise on the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God with an Appendix on the Worship of the Saints, Relics, and Images | Joseph Pohle adapted by Arthur Preuss
• Mary | Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia
• Prolegomena to Mariology | Theo-Drama, Volume 3: Dramatis Personae: Persons in Christ by Hans Urs von Balthasar

Orthodox sources

• St. John Maximovitch and Fr. Seraphim Rose: The Orthodox Veneration of Mary The Birthgiver of God | not in Logos
• Orthodoxwiki: Theotokos
• An Orthodox View of the Virgin Mary | Orthodox Christian Information Center (inquirer oriented)
• The Veneration of the Virgin Mary in the Orthodox Church | by Archbishop Dmitri of Dallas and the South

Reformation sources

• Luther’s Commentary on the Magnificat
• Augsburg Confession | Book of Concord
• Apology to the Augsburg Confession 21 especially paragraph 27 | Book of Concord
• Smalcald Articles I, iv | 1582 Latin Book of Concord has “semper virgo” here.
• Epitome of the Formula of Concord VIII | Book of Concord
• Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord VIII | Book of Concord

Historical Studies

• MacHaffie Medieval Mariology | Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition
• Pusey First Letter to the Very Rev. J.H. Newman, D.D.
• Schaff The Exaltation Of The Virgin Mariology | History of the Christian Church

Contemporary sources

• Mary for All Christians | by John MacQuarrie
• Christian History Magazine—Issue 83: Mary in the Imagination of the Church
• Raymond Brown et al: Mary in the New Testament. A Collaborative Assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars | not in Logos
• The One Mediator, the Saints, and Mary, ed, H. George Anderson, J. Francis Stafford, and Joseph A. Burgess, Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue VIII | not in Logos
• “Blessed Art Thou Among Women” in The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn | not in Logos
• “Liturgy and Confession: A Brotherly Warning against the ‘High Church’ Danger” in The Lonely Way, vol. 2 Hermann Sasse | not in Logos
• Jaroslav Pelikan: Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture | not in Logos
• Evangelicals and the Mother of God | by Timothy George, First Things, February 2007
• Our Lady of Wheaton | by Matthew Milliner, First Things, October 2013
• World Evangelical Fellowship: Mariology | A Contemporary Evangelical Perspective on Roman Catholicism
• (alternative source) | Evangelical Review of Theology, Volume 10, 1986
• Tim Perry: Mary for Evangelicals: Toward an Understanding of the Mother of Our Lord | not in Logos
• Is There Something About Mary? | by G. Edward Reid (Adventist review of Perry’s book)
• Scot McKnight: The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of God | not in Logos
• Do Whatever He Tells You: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Christian Faith and Life: A Statement of Evangelicals and Catholics Together
• Engaging Popular Religion: A Hermeneutical Investigation of Marian Devotion in the Township of MPOPHOMENI
• Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Cynthia L. Rigby, editors, Blessed One: Protestant Perspectives on Mary (Louisville:Westminster/John Knox, 2002) | not in Logos

• John MacArthur on Mariolatry – Part 1 | Churchmouse Campanologist
• John MacArthur on Mariolatry – Part 2 | Churchmouse Campanologist
• Emotion, sensation, Mary and ecumenism = One World Religion | Churchmouse Campanologist
• A summary of Mariology and the Church | Churchmouse Campanologist
• The Veneration of the Virgin Mary | Reformed Reflections
• The Virgin Mary Mariolatry:The Great Divide (1) | Reformed Reflections
• The Virgin Mary: The Biblical Mary (2) | Reformed Reflections
• Geisler, Norman & MacKenzie, Ralph: Mariology | Roman Catholics and Evangelicals: Agreements and Differences
• Luther’s Theology of Mary: A Response to Catholic Apologist Dave Armstrong | James Swan
• Mary and the Saints as an Issue in the Lutheran Confessions | Robert Bertram
• Luther on the Unique Mediatorship of Christ | Robert Bertram