LEADER 02920oam 2200529 450 001 9910798208703321 005 20230808192714.0 010 $a0-300-21953-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300219531 035 $a(CKB)3710000000654114 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001663696 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16449932 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001663696 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14906371 035 $a(PQKB)10220431 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001446743 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4518763 035 $a(DE-B1597)540206 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300219531 035 $a(OCoLC)948286650 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000654114 100 $a20210503d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMary in early christian faith and devotion /$fStephen J. Shoemaker 210 1$aNew Haven, Connecticut :$cYale University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-21721-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Mapping a New Approach to Early Marian Piety --$tChapter One. A Virgin Unspotted: Devotion to Mary in the First Two Centuries --$tChapter Two. Mother of God and Mother of Mysteries: The Third Century --$tChapter Three. Mother of the Great Cherub of Light: The Book of Mary?s Repose --$tChapter Four. A Cult Following: The Six Books Dormition Apocryphon --$tChapter Five. The Memory of Mary: The Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries --$tChapter Six. The Scepter of Orthodoxy: The Cult of the Virgin and the Council of Ephesus --$tConclusions --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 8 $aHere, 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. 606 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600 615 0$aChurch history 676 $a232.9109 700 $aShoemaker$b Stephen J.$f1968-$0621662 801 0$bCaPaEBR 801 1$bCaPaEBR 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798208703321 996 $aMary in early christian faith and devotion$93766462 997 $aUNINA