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To understand the cult of the Virgin Mary is to understand the
Christian religion. The Virgin Mary is a ubiquitous but enigmatic
presence in Christian history and culture. The tradition about Mary
forms a vast and multi-layered aspect of Western history, culture
and spirituality. It is not just in the Catholic tradition that
Mary has become a particular focus of study and interest. Mary has
also become a crucial interest for Christians outside this
tradition (Protestant, Anglican) as a path to ecumenical
understanding. This book is intended as a reference book for the
student or scholar seeking knowledge of the history and
contemporary practice of the cult of the Virgin Mary. It provides
new essays which give overviews of particular areas of study - both
historical and thematic - together with texts from primary sources
and important scholarly articles, some of which appear in English
for the first time. The volume is designed to be suitable for use
as a course book at undergraduate and Masters levels. The result is
astonishing and will open up whole new avenues for theological and
spiritual enquiry. "The Virgin Mary": A resource book for study
will be essential for anyone who has a strong theological or
devotional interest in Mary. But it will open the eyes of those who
do not.
In recent years Mary has stepped out of the closet of piety and
devotion and become the subject of serious theological study and
work. For too long Mary was an icon for the repression of women by
a male dominated Church, but now Mary is seen as a vital
theological symbol, a symbol of true femininity and true humanity
which the Church and the modern world needs urgently. Jung has
argued that the Definition of the Doctrine of the Assumptioin was
the most important religious event since the Reformation: the
feminine principle has been absorbed into the Godhead. Yet amongst
some modern Catholics, as well as most Protestant Christians, the
Virgin Mary is still seen as someone who has a very small part to
play in the drama of salvation and creation. In Mary, Sarah Jane
Boss seeks to correct this view. She argues that Christian theology
should conceive of the created order, both physical and spiritual,
as sacred in the highest degree, and that this understanding is
already implicit in traditions of Marian doctrine and devotion. Far
from being peripheral this understanding of Mary is central to
Christian doctrine. It must underlie any attempt to answer the
fundamental ethical questions of our age, namely that of the extent
to which human beings are entitled to intervene in the natural
order.
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