Article: The Everything Mary Book: The Life and Legacy of the Blessed Mother.(Book review)

Article: The Church and Mary.(Book review)
Church History;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The Church and Mary. Edited by R. N. Swanson. Studies in ... Ecclesiastical History Society on the topic of Mary from a variety of perspectives. The brief ... Harting attributes recent interest in Mary to new publications and to Mary's importance ...

Article: Blessed One: Protestant Perspectives on Mary.(Book ...
Biblical Theology Bulletin;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... BLESSED ONE: PROTESTANT PERSPECTIVES ON MARY. Edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa & ... collection of eleven essays observes that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is virtually absent ... invited Protestant scholars to think about Mary precisely as Protestants. The result of ...

Article: Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary.(Book ...
History Today;  May 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Mother of God A History of the Virgin Mary Miri Rubin Allen Lane 400pp 30 [pounds ... attempted a study of this scale and scope on Mary. In 400 pages and in 23 chapters, in ... half of history, and with an afterword on Mary in the contemporary world, we learn of ...

Article: Not for the faint of heart challenging notions about ...
Catholic New Times;  September 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The Book of Mary, by Gaff Sidonie Sobat. Sumach Press, 2006. 251 pages. Imagine Mary, the mother of Jesus, being quoted as saying ... come out of the mouth of Gail Sidonie Sobat's Mary, in her novel, The Book of Mary. I draw attention ...

Article: Empress and Handmaid: On Nature and Gender in the Cult of the ...
Church History;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Nature and Gender in the Cult of the Virgin Mary. By Sarah Jane Boss. London: Cassell ... chapters, Boss presents the evidence of Mary's transformation from a majestic mother ... Chapter 1 treats the representation of Mary in art, focusing on a particular medieval ...

Article: Full of grace; Virgin Mary.(Mother of God: A History of ...
The Economist (US);  February 21, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... east concerns the way in which the Virgin Mary is conceived (in more than one sense ... writer who lives in Greece, the eastern Mary "has the austere aloofness of an oriental ... luxury; every twist of her account of Mary's veneration over the past 2,000 years ...

Article: Seeing Mary. (Books).(God-Sent: A History of the ...
Cross Currents;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... History of the Accredited Apparitions of Mary Crossroad, 2000. $39.95 (cloth ... soothsayers will be better served if they turn to Mary of the Magnificat, who was once God ... Sandra Zimdars-Schwartz's Encountering Mary (Princeton, 1991) will not find comparable ...