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Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion (Hardcover)
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Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion (Hardcover)
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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 centrality in Christian
devotion. Gathering together fresh information from often neglected
sources, including early liturgical texts and Dormition and
Assumption apocrypha, Stephen Shoemaker reveals that Marian
devotion played a far more vital role in the development of early
Christian belief and practice than has been previously recognized,
finding evidence that dates back to the latter half of the second
century. Through extensive research, the author is able to provide
a fascinating background to the hitherto inexplicable "explosion"
of Marian devotion that historians and theologians have pondered
for decades, offering a wide-ranging study that challenges many
conventional beliefs surrounding the subject of Mary, Mother of
God.
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