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The Marian Mystery: The Outline of a Mariology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Fr. Denis Farkasfalvy discusses the development of Catholic doctrine regarding the Blessed Virgin Mary. The damage done by much modern speculative theology largely stems from the failure to distinguish fact from fiction in the study of Mariology. Farkasfalvy addresses this, beginning with a biblical and patristic inquiry about the place and meaning of Mary in salvation history with reference to...

salvation,”15 in the form of narratives and statements, about natural and supernatural realities, which—in the case of Mariology—are connected in the closest possible way to the mystery of the Incarnation and of the Trinity, the central truths of Revelation. The biblical text clearly manifests the special status of Mariology: it presents her as the person from whose individual human nature the Incarnation of God’s Son took place. In Matthew and Luke, the two canonical Gospels that explicitly treat
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