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Mary in early Christian faith and devotion / Stephen J. Shoemaker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shoemaker, Stephen J., 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--History.
- Mary.
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 289 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 A Virgin Unspotted: Devotion to Mary in the First Two Centuries 30
- Chapter 2 Mother of God and Mother of Mysteries: The Third Century 64
- Chapter 3 Mother of the Great Cherub of Light: The Book of Mary's Repose 100
- Chapter 4 A Cult Following: The Six Books Dormition Apocryphon 130
- Chapter 5 The Memory of Mary: The Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries 166
- Chapter 6 The Scepter of Orthodoxy: The Cult of the Virgin and the Council of Ephesus 205.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300217216
- 0300217218
- OCLC:
- 926820830
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