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This volume provides a concise, nontechnical historical introduction to the church’s thinking about Mary, the mother of Jesus. The first part of the book sketches the development of Marian thought from the second century to the twentieth century. The second part contains an annotated bibliography of the most important and accessible English-language works on Mary. Tim Perry, an evangelical...

Without detracting in any way from what has just been said, Mary has also functioned in the history of Christian thought as a sign of or pointer to the Lord’s identity as the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, and it is here that her virginity comes into view. Whether we are looking at patristic understandings of Isaiah 7:14 or Karl Barth’s staunch defense of the natus ex virgine (“born of the Virgin Mary,” taken from the Apostles’ Creed), thought about Mary naturally arises when Christians reflect
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