02920oam 2200529 450 991079820870332120230808192714.00-300-21953-910.12987/9780300219531(CKB)3710000000654114(SSID)ssj0001663696(PQKBManifestationID)16449932(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001663696(PQKBWorkID)14906371(PQKB)10220431(StDuBDS)EDZ0001446743(MiAaPQ)EBC4518763(DE-B1597)540206(DE-B1597)9780300219531(OCoLC)948286650(EXLCZ)99371000000065411420210503d2016 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrMary in early christian faith and devotion /Stephen J. ShoemakerNew Haven, Connecticut :Yale University Press,[2016]©20161 online resourceBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-21721-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --CONTENTS --Preface and Acknowledgments --Introduction. Mapping a New Approach to Early Marian Piety --Chapter One. A Virgin Unspotted: Devotion to Mary in the First Two Centuries --Chapter Two. Mother of God and Mother of Mysteries: The Third Century --Chapter Three. Mother of the Great Cherub of Light: The Book of Mary’s Repose --Chapter Four. A Cult Following: The Six Books Dormition Apocryphon --Chapter Five. The Memory of Mary: The Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries --Chapter Six. The Scepter of Orthodoxy: The Cult of the Virgin and the Council of Ephesus --Conclusions --Notes --Bibliography --IndexHere, 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.Church historyPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600Church history232.9109Shoemaker Stephen J.1968-621662CaPaEBRCaPaEBRUtOrBLWBOOK9910798208703321Mary in early christian faith and devotion3766462UNINA