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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The first-century Jewish woman M of Nazareth mother of Jesus pro- claimed in faith as the Theotokos the God-bearer is the most celebrated fe- male religious figure in the Christian tra- dition. So varied and manifold are the traditions about Mary both popular and scholarly that some would speak of “Mary” as a collective noun or refer in George Tavard’s memorable title to The Thousand Faces of the Virgin Mary. While Elizabeth Johnson’s long- waited book on Mary (the title of which comes from Pope Paul VI) draws on the history of marian doctrine and devo- tion it is not a work of doctrinal theolo- gy in the traditional sense. It does not aim to present the full teaching of the church about Mary which is amply found elsewhere. Rather convinced that history is the arena of encounter with God Johnson seeks to understand Mary’s meaning as a particular person with her own life to compose. Mary has been symbolized to such an extravagant degree-symbol of the maternal face of God of the eternal feminine of the dis- ciple of the Idealized church-and di- vorced from her own history that ap- proaching her as an actual human being surprises us with the discovery that she too struggled that her own Journey in Vatican II’s poetic phrase was a pilgrimage of faith. (SP)