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MARY
The Complete Resource
EDITED BY
SARAH JANE Boss
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Individual essays copyright © the contributors, 2007
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First published 2007
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ISBN 0 8601 2341 3 (hardback)
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CONTENTS
Contributors ix
Abbreviations xi
Editor's Introduction
Sarah Jane Boss 1
Part 1 The Virgin Mary in Earliest Christianity
1 Mary in the New Testament and Apocrypha
Chris Maunder 11
The Conception of the Virgin Mary
from The Protevangelium of James 47
The Annunciation
from The Protevangelium of James 48
2 The Title Theotokos
Sarah Jane Boss 50
3 Theotokos: The Title and its Significance in Doctrine and Devotion
Richard Price 56
Cyril of Alexandria on the title Theotokos
from the Third Letter to Nestorius 74
4 Mary in Patristic Theology
Tina Beattie 75
5 The Origins of Marian Art: The Evolution of Marian Imagery in
the Western Church until AD 431
Geri Parlby 106
6 Marian Liturgies and Devotion in Early Christianity
Stephen J. Shoemaker 130
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Part 2 The Cult of the Virgin Mary during the Middle Ages
7 The Development of the Virgin's Cult in the High Middle Ages
Sarah Jane Boss 149
The Vision of the Monk Robert
translated by Sarah Jane Boss 173
8 Marian Devotion in the Latin West in the Later Middle Ages
Eva De Visscher 177
Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary
from the Collection of Johannes Herolt 202
Part 3 Mariology
9 The Development of the Doctrine of Mary's Immaculate Conception
Sarah Jane Boss 207
Extract from a Medieval Sermon on the Conception of Blessed Mary 236
10 The English Reformers and the Blessed Virgin Mary
Paul Williams 238
11 Francisco Suárez and Modern Mariology
Sarah Jane Boss 256
Extracts from Ineffabilis Deus
Dogmatic Constitution on the Immaculate Conception 279
Extracts from Mumficentissimus Deus
Apostolic Constitution on the Assumption 281
12 How to Think about Mary's Privileges: A Post-Conciliar Exposition
Philip Endean 284
The Fundamental Principle of Marian Theology
Karl Rahner, translated and with an introduction by Philip Endean 292
13 Immaculate Mary: The Ecclesial Mariology of Hans Urs von Balthasar
Francesca Murphy 300
14 The Virgin Mary in Anglican Tradition
Paul Williams 314
15 Mary in Ecumenical Dialogue and Exchange
David Carter 340
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Part 4 Traditions of Devotion
16 Mary in Early Modern Europe
Trevor Johnson 363
17 Telling the Beads: The Practice and Symbolism of the Rosary
Sarah Jane Boss 385
18 Mary: Images and Objects
Simon Coleman 395
19 Marian Consecration in the Contemporary Church
Sarah Jane Boss 411
20 Apparitions of Mary
Chris Maunder 424
21 Black Madonnas
Sarah Jane Boss 458
Part 5 Mary in Art and Literature
22 Mary in Islam
Tim Winter 479
23 Mary in Nineteenth-Century English and American Poetry
Nancy de Flon 503
24 Mary in Modern European Literature
Catherine O'Brien 521
25 Mary in Film
Catherine O'Brien 532
26 The Iconographic Types of the Virgin in Western Art
Maurice Vloberg 537
Index 587
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CONTRIBUTORS
Tina Seattle is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious
Studies, Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey.
Sarah Jane Boss is Lecturer in Christian Theology and Director of the Centre for
Marian Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter.
David Carter is a Member of the British Methodist/Roman Catholic Dialogue
Group.
Simon Coleman is Professor of Anthropology, University of Sussex.
Philip Endean, SJ is a Fellow of Campion Hall, and Lecturer in Theology,
University of Oxford.
Nancy de Flon is a writer and lecturer in New York, and academic editor at Paulist
Press.
Trevor Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of the
West of England.
Chris Maunder is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious
Studies, York St John University, York.
Francesca Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of St Andrews.
Catherine O'Brien is Lecturer in French and German, University of Kingston.
Geri Parlby is Lecturer on Sacred Images of the Female, and a research student in
the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Roehampton Institute,
University of Surrey.
Richard Price is Lecturer in the Department of Theology, Heythrop College,
University of London.
Stephen J. Shoemaker is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of
Oregon, Eugene.
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