Ten lectures reflecting advancement in Mariology and the renewed and ongoing interest in Marian theology and devotional spirituality. Contributing authors include Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer, Rachel Fulton Brown, Brian E. Daley, S.J., Kevin Hart, Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., Maxwell E. Johnson, Dorian Llywelyn, S.J., Francesca Aran Murphy, Edward T. Oakes, S.J., and Stephen Shoemaker.
Topics of this impressive 10th anniversary collection, presented through the Theotokos Lecture Series, inaugurated in 2008 by the Marquette University Department of Theology, Catholic and Orthodox liturgical and theological traditions; the story and image of Mary at Guadalupe and meaning among Protestant Christians; early biography of Mary written in Old Georgian and attributed to Maximus the Confessor; the doctrine of Marys Immaculate Conception and its reception; the meaningfulness of Mary examined through four Marian lyrics; the title Omnipotent by Grace that was given to Mary; Mary as Wisdom and the Lady of the Temple who enabled the Israelites to experience God; Marys significance in the 21st century; the history of devotion to Mary in Latin America during the conquest period and the challenges to Mariological thought that remain; the postconciliar decline in interest in Marion piety and todays renewed interest in Mariology as a field of theological study.