Origins of the cult of the Virgin Mary
By: edited by Chris Maunder.
Contributors: Maunder, Chris.
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780860124566
Subjects: Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The early cult of Mary and inter-religious contexts in the fifth-century church / John McGuckin; title: Origins of the cult of the Virgin Mary in the New Testament / Chris Maunder; title: The origins of Marian art in the catacombs and the problems of identification / Geri Parlby; title: Mary in the apocryphal New Testament / J. K. Elliot; title: The cult of the Virgin in the fourth century: a fresh look at some old and new sources / Stephen Shoemaker; title: The Theotokos and the Council of Ephesus / Richard M. Price; title: Did Cyril of Alexandria invent Mariology? / Antonia Atanassova; title: The life-bearing spring / Margaret Barker; title: Candlemas: a festival of Roman origin / Alistair MacGregor; title: Pope John VII's devotion to Mary: papal images of Mary from the fifth to the early eighth centuries / Eileen Rubery