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Mary's Bodily Assumption (Hardcover)
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Mary's Bodily Assumption (Hardcover)
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In Mary's Bodily Assumption, Matthew Levering presents a
contemporary explanation and defense of the Catholic doctrine of
Mary's bodily Assumption. He asks: How does the Church justify a
doctrine that does not have explicit biblical or first-century
historical evidence to support it? With the goal of exploring this
question more deeply, he divides his discussion into two sections,
one historical and the other systematic. Levering's historical
section aims to retrieve the rich Mariological doctrine of the
mid-twentieth century. He introduces the development of Mariology
in Catholic Magisterial documents, focusing on Pope Pius XII's
encyclical Munificentissimus Deus of 1950, in which the bodily
Assumption of Mary was dogmatically defined, and two later
Magisterial documents, Vatican II's Lumen Gentium and Pope John
Paul II's Redemptoris Mater. Levering addresses the work of the
neo-scholastic theologians Joseph Duhr, Alois Janssens, and
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange before turning to the great theologians
of the nouvelle theologie-Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar,
Louis Bouyer, Joseph Ratzinger-and their emphasis on biblical
typology. Using John Henry Newman as a guide, Levering organizes
his systematic section by the three pillars of the doctrine on
which Mary's Assumption rests: biblical typology, the Church as
authoritative interpreter of divine revelation under the guidance
of the Holy Spirit, and the fittingness of Mary's Assumption in
relation to the other mysteries of faith. Levering's ecumenical
contribution is a significant engagement with Protestant biblical
scholars and theologians; it is also a reclamation of Mariology as
a central topic in Catholic theology.
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