The Book of John Concerning the Falling Asleep of Mary
Title | The Book of John Concerning the Falling Asleep of Mary PDF eBook |
Author | St. John The Theologian |
Publisher | Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | 18 |
Release | |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1465558012 |
On the Dormition of Mary
Title | On the Dormition of Mary PDF eBook |
Author | Brian E. Daley |
Publisher | RSM Press |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780881411775 |
"Since the time of the early Church, Orthodox Christians have honored Mary, the Mother of God, with special solemnity on August 15. From the sixth century on, that celebration has been explicitly associated with her death, as the culmination of a human life uniquely "full of grace," uniquely involved in the Mystery of our salvation and transformation in Christ. ...." [from back cover]
Mary, the Apostles, and the Last Judgment
Title | Mary, the Apostles, and the Last Judgment PDF eBook |
Author | Stanislava Kuzmova |
Publisher | Trivent Publishing |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2020-12-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 6158179302 |
This volume presents a timely contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the apocryphal writings and their reception in the Middle Ages, especially in connection with visual representation. It aims to bridge what often remains disconnected, the visual art and the written text, the early Christian roots and medieval reception, the East and the West, as well as methodologies of various disciplines. The studies in this volume firstly investigate issues related to the Virgin Mary, and through them, also the status, function, and identity of women. Mary and the female element thus represent significant models and/or background figures in fields pertaining to theology, religious studies, textual studies, manuscript studies, and art history in a trans-disciplinary perspective. Secondly, the studies focus on the apostles and the Last Judgment, their visual representations and the use of apocryphal sources. The volume is divided in two parts according to two major topics: Part I dealing with Mary in the Apocrypha, and Part II focusing on the Apostles and the Last Judgment.
The John also called Mark
Title | The John also called Mark PDF eBook |
Author | Dean Furlong |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | 251 |
Release | 2020-05-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3161592778 |
"In this study, Dean Furlong examines the reception of John Mark in Christian tradition, discussing his identifications with both Mark the Evangelist and Mark the founder of the Alexandrian Church, and positing that some ancient writers identified John/Mark with John the Evangelist." --
Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption
Title | Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen J. Shoemaker |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 477 |
Release | 2003-01-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0191530573 |
This is an open access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), a copy of which is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The ancient Dormition and Assumption traditions are a collection of over sixty different narratives, preserved in nine ancient languages, that commemorate the end of the Virgin Mary's life. These traditions have long been overlooked by scholars of early Christianity, no doubt largely because this complicated corpus was insufficiently well known. The present study aims to remedy this situation with a detailed analysis of the earliest traditions of Mary's death, including liturgical and archaeological evidence as well as the numerous narrative sources. Several of the most important narratives are translated in appendices, many appearing in English for the first time. The book will be of interest to all scholars of early Christian literature.
John, the Son of Zebedee
Title | John, the Son of Zebedee PDF eBook |
Author | R. Alan Culpepper |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 406 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780872499621 |
One of the most important sources of information about the development of Johannine legends as well as one of the most successful efforts to overcome barriers that have traditionally separated New Testament exegesis from the study of church history.
Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion
Title | Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen J. Shoemaker |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2016-07-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0300219539 |
For the first time a noted 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. Through extensive research, the author is able to provide a fascinating background to the hitherto inexplicable “explosion” of Marian devotion that historians and theologians have pondered for decades, offering a wide-ranging study that challenges many conventional beliefs surrounding the subject of Mary, Mother of God.