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Mary in early Christian faith and devotion /

For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strangely overlooked despite, or perhaps because of, her...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shoemaker, Stephen J., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : mapping a new approach to early Marian piety
  • A virgin unspotted : devotion to Mary in the first two centuries
  • Mother of God and mother of mysteries : the third century
  • Mother of the great cherub of light : the Book of Mary's repose
  • A cult following : the Six Books Dormition Apocryphon
  • The memory of Mary : the fourth and early fifth centuries
  • The scepter of orthodoxy : the cult of the virgin and the Council of Ephesus.