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Unit 1. Mary in Scripture and in the Mind of the Early Church
Additional/Recommended Readings
Donald Senior: “"Gospel Portrait of Mary: Images and Symbols from the Synoptic Tradition” in Donnelly, D., Mary Woman of Nazareth:
Biblical and Theological Perspectives, Notre Dame, 1989
Pheme Perkins “ Mary in Johannine Traditions” in Donnelly, op cit.
A Tambasco What are they saying about Mary? Paulist Press, NY, 1984
R. Brown et al. Mary in the New Testament, Fortress Press, Phil. 1978
Questions and Further Study:
Prepare and discuss a summary of the images of Mary contained in the Synoptics and the Johannine Traditions
What did Paul have to say about Mary?
How did Mary “develop” from the time of the synoptics to the time of the Johannine community?
What led to the changes?
What is central to Orthodox traditions regarding Mary?
What were the principle concerns of Christology in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries?
How did Christological debate influence thinking on the role/place of Mary?
How did the views of the Church Fathers regarding the role of Mary in Redemption, influence Medieval Theological enquiry?
Unit 2. Mary in the Medieval Period and to the time of the Reformation
Post Reformation Mariologies
Additional/ Recommended Readings:
Mary in the churches edited by Hans Kung and Jurgen Moltmann ;
English language editor Marcus Lefebure. Edinburgh:T. & T. Clark ;
New York : Seabury Press, c1983
Brennan, W.T. "Faith, Mary, Culture." Marian Studies XLVI (1995): 10-25
Clayton, Mary, The cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Coyle, Kathleen (Kathleen T.) Mary in the Christian tradition : from a contemporary perspective North American ed. Leominster,
Herefordshire, England :
Gracewing ; Mystic, CT : Twenty-Third Publications, 1996
Cuneen, S. In Search of Mary, the Woman and the Symbol. Ballantine Books. New York, 1996
Jelly, Frederick M. Madonna : Mary in the Catholic tradition Huntington, Ind. :Our Sunday Visitor Pub. Division,
c1986.
Falkenburg, Reindert Leonard. The fruit of devotion : mysticism and the imagery of love in Flemish paintings of the Virgin and Child,
1450-1550 translated from the Dutch by Sammy Herman. Amsterdam Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 1994.
Graef, H. Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion. Sheed & Ward. London, 1963, 1965, 1985
Laurentin, R. "Fifth Period The Post-Tridentine Marian Movement (1563-1958)A Short Treatise on the Virgin Mary. Pp.126-141.AMI Press,
Washington, NJ , 1991.
Pelikan, J. Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture. New Haven, London:Yale University Press, 1996
Questions and Further Study
How did the development of speculative theology - in relation to Mary - work towards developing new insights into Mariology?
Why did Mary assume such a place in popular piety within the Middle Ages?
What did Bernard of Clairvaux contribute to mariological thought?
How was the image of Mary used by women within the Middle Ages?
How was the image of Mary used by churchmen in the Middle Ages
What did the reformists - Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, think of Mary?
What role did the reformers play in “cleaning up” Marian Devotion?
What part did popular piety play in the Mariological thought of the Middle Ages?
What part did new movements of spirituality play in the changing Mariological atmosphere of the Reformation?
How did Luther percive Marian devotion and piety?’
What part could ecumenism play in healing the wounds of the Reformation?
Unit 3. Click here to go to Mariology from the 17th - 19th Centuries.
Unit 4. Click here to go to Twentieth Century Mariology
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