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Mariology: A Dogmatic Treatise on the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God with an Appendix on the Worship of the Saints, Relics, and Images is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although Mariology has been a flashpoint of contention between Catholics and Protestants, Mary plays an important role in doctrine, and should be studied for no other reason than she is the mother of Jesus. In this short volume, Pohle exhibits a historical and theological mastery of the issue in his explanation of the immaculate conception, the complex relationship between Mary and original sin,...

of grace had she not, from the first instant of her existence, been entirely exempt from sin. In other words, her plenitudo gratiae10 must be conceived as unlimited in intensity as well as duration. Rightly, therefore, does Martin Luther remark of our Lady: “We could not say to her: ‘Blessed art thou,’ if she had at any time been subject to malediction.”11 Thus conceived, the prerogative of plenitudo gratiae as well as the “blessedness” of Mary logically include her Immaculate Conception, as a cause
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