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Marian Doctrine and Devotion, Image and Typology in the Patristic and Medieval
Periods
Brian K. Reynolds
Marian Doctrine
and Devotion, Image and Typology in the Patristic and Medieval Periods
Volume I: Doctrine and Devotion
PAPERBACK; 415 PAGES; 2012
ISBN: 978-1-56548-449-8
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About this Book
This first volume lays out all the Marian doctrines and their evolution in
a clear and easy-to-follow format as well as providing two chapters on patristic
and medieval devotion. Doctrines discussed include Mary’s divine motherhood
and its impact on Christology; Mary’s virginity – before, during,
and after the birth of Jesus; intercession and mediation, and Marian co-redemption.
It provides, for the first time, extensive citations from original works,
both patristic and medieval, many of which have never appeared in English
before. Thus, it gives a firsthand insight into the figure of Mary and her
religious and cultural importance. The author’s principal purpose is
to focus on the internal dynamics of Christianity in the development of Marian
doctrine and devotion so that, without pushing a Catholic or even Christian
point of view, the book seeks to counter erroneous interpretations that are
all too frequently found in well-known and oft-cited works.
Some Reviews:
“It seems to me far and away the most comprehensive survey of the origins
and development of Marian theology and spirituality, at least up to the late
Middle Ages, in both East and West. It is beautifully organized and developed,
and the abundance of primary texts […] makes it particularly helpful.
It [goes] far beyond both Hilda Graef’s excellent earlier history of
Marian doctrine, and Georg Söll’s fascicle in the Handbuch der
Dogmengeschichte.”
Brian E. Daley,
Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame
A book that we have very
much needed in Marian studies.”
Rachel Fulton,
Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Chicago
“Just wonderful:
it has far more extensive quotations from primary sources than Hilda Graef's
Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion, and I think it will replace her
book for the period that it covers. I am already quoting from it in my own
research!”
Sarah Jane Boss,
Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies, Roehampton University,
London
He begins each section
with a clear summary of what the doctrine actually states, and then shows
how it is derived from reflection on scripture. His method is extensive quotation
from the Fathers, tracing the gradual development of these ideas. There are
passages from familiar names such as Athanasius, Augustine, and Albert the
Great — as well as passages from Dante and devotional hymns such as
the Stabat Mater — set out in generously expansive form … The
reader will discover many passages of great poetic beauty and devotional intensity,
and find that their meditation on Mary leads to deepening faith in her Son.
This was, after all, the intention of each of the teachers whose writings
make up this collection.
The Revd Dr John Binns,
Vicar of Great St Mary’s, Cambridge, and an Hon. Canon of Ely Cathedral
in Church Times
This is an excellent book
that should be owned by anyone interested in the history of Marian doctrine
and devotion, and it is terrific that New City Press has now made it so easily
and affordably available … This volume is especially valuable for the
numerous translations that it provides from the primary sources, many of which
have not otherwise been translated into English. The presentation of these
sources according to topic and chronology in the context of the most recent
scholarship marks an invaluable contribution to Marian studies. No less important
is the care with which Reynolds notes the development of Marian piety in the
medieval West in relation to earlier precedents from the East—such connections
are often overlooked in much scholarship on Mary in the Middle Ages. Likewise,
Reynolds is to be commended for resisting and correcting the tendency of much
Roman Catholic scholarship to read later doctrinal developments in the West
(i.e., the Immaculate Conception; Immediate Co-Operation) back into the Greek
Patristic sources.
Stephen J. Shoemaker,
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oregon in Catholic Historical
Review
Indispensable for those
seeking a middle ground between overly broad and overly specialized studies
of Marian thought and practice … Almost every page contains block quotes,
often of works unavailable in English. [Reynolds’] primary goal is to
let these compiled sources speak for themselves. The contention behind this
strategy seems to be that there were, and are, real theological concerns in
Marian questions that cannot be reduced to social or cultural factors. The
book is, thus, useful as a complement to recent scholarship on Marian devotion
as a phenomenon of social history. The key questions here are doctrinal: the
meaning of Mary’s virgin motherhood or her role as co-redemptrix, the
stakes of the assumption or Immaculate Conception.
Samuel Keyes,
Boston College in Religious Studies Review
About the author Brian
K. Reynolds
Brian Reynolds studied Italian at University College Dublin and did his postgraduate
studies at Trinity College Dublin. He is an assistant professor in the Department
of Italian Language and Culture, Fu Jen University, Taipei, where he has worked
since 1998. He previously taught in Trinity College Dublin, University College
Dublin, and Università degli studi, Bari, Italy. His research in the
last number of years has concentrated on early Italian poetry, especially
Dante, and Mariology. He has published extensively on Dante and related topics
and on the Virgin Mary.
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