TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shoemaker,Stephen J.
TI  - Mary in early Christian faith and devotion
SN  - 9780300219531 (ebook) :
AV  - BT645 .S53 2017
U1  - 232.9109 23
KW  - Mary,
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Here, a 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
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