Revision as of 2013 September
by NB.Mick
Mary
Type: Person
Alternate Labels
- Mariology
- Blessed Virgin
- Mother of Jesus
- Mother of God
- Theotokos
- Our Lady
- Madonna
- Queen of Heaven
Reading List
Mary, mother of Jesus (Theotokos)
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
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
Marian Apostolic Constitutions & Encyclicals
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 Timorthy George on First Things blog
- 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