Queen Mother: A Biblical Theology of Mary’s Queenship

Fr Devin Roza said:

 a nice summary of the ANE background to this book is found here: The Great Lady in ANE This is taken from "Ancient Israel: It's Life and Institutions" by Roland de Vaux.

Ken McGuire said:

As a Lutheran, I find it quite helpful to read carefully Lumen Gentum to see what Rome says and does not say.  I am not at all sure I would say all they say - let alone say that it is dogma, but there is a vast difference between what they actually say and what most protestants say they say.  For a Logos link: logosres:vat2docs;ref=VaticanII.LG_51-69

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Ken McGuire

Another great summary is the Catechism.

I believe the two most important sections of the Catechism to see what the Catholic Church teaches about Mary would be:

logosres:catcathchrch;ref=CCC.CCC_486;off=458

logosres:catcathchrch;ref=CCC.CCC_963;off=-57

Bill Rust said:

I would enjoy a discussion on this matter, but I am limited in what I am allowed to say, since to respond to your points would invoke theology.

For theological discussions, one option is using => https://faithlife.com/ that allows group members to share many Logos documents => https://documents.logos.com

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Southern Baptist? http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/03/evangelicals-and-the-mother-of-god-40

Anyone know this resource? Mary for Evangelicals: Toward an Understanding of the Mother of Our Lord by Tim Perry

Some sources from the reformation:

Because the blog from which this is taken deserves it's own fallacy hound, rather than giving the link I am giving only the quotations. This simply helps but things in historical perspective if you don't want the real history i.e. Pelikan.

Martin Luther:

        Mary the Mother of God

        Throughout his life Luther maintained without change the historic Christian affirmation that Mary was the Mother of God:

        "She is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God ... It is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God."1

        Perpetual Virginity

        Again throughout his life Luther held that Mary's perpetual virginity was an article of faith for all Christians - and interpreted Galatians 4:4 to mean that Christ was "born of a woman" alone.

        "It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a Virgin."2

        The Immaculate Conception

        Yet again the Immaculate Conception was a doctrine Luther defended to his death (as confirmed by Lutheran scholars like Arthur Piepkorn). Like Augustine, Luther saw an unbreakable link between Mary's divine maternity, perpetual virginity and Immaculate Conception. Although his formulation of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was not clear-cut, he held that her soul was devoid of sin from the beginning:

        "But the other conception, namely the infusion of the soul, it is piously and suitably believed, was without any sin, so that while the soul was being infused, she would at the same time be cleansed from original sin and adorned with the gifts of God to receive the holy soul thus infused. And thus, in the very moment in which she began to live, she was without all sin..."3

        Assumption

        Although he did not make it an article of faith, Luther said of the doctrine of the Assumption:

        "There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know."4

        Honor to Mary

        Despite his unremitting criticism of the traditional doctrines of Marian mediation and intercession, to the end Luther continued to proclaim that Mary should be honored. He made it a point to preach on her feast days.

        "The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart."5

        "Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing."6 Luther made this statement in his last sermon at Wittenberg in January 1546.

 

John Calvin: It has been said that John Calvin belonged to the second generation of the Reformers and certainly his theology of double predestination governed his views on Marian and all other Christian doctrine . Although Calvin was not as profuse in his praise of Mary as Martin Luther he did not deny her perpetual virginity. The term he used most commonly in referring to Mary was "Holy Virgin".

        "Elizabeth called Mary Mother of the Lord, because the unity of the person in the two natures of Christ was such that she could have said that the mortal man engendered in the womb of Mary was at the same time the eternal God."7

        "Helvidius has shown himself too ignorant, in saying that Mary had several sons, because mention is made in some passages of the brothers of Christ."8 Calvin translated "brothers" in this context to mean cousins or relatives.

        "It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor."9

        "To this day we cannot enjoy the blessing brought to us in Christ without thinking at the same time of that which God gave as adornment and honour to Mary, in willing her to be the mother of his only-begotten Son."10

 

Ulrich Zwingli:

        "It was given to her what belongs to no creature, that in the flesh she should bring forth the Son of God."11

        "I firmly believe that Mary, according to the words of the gospel as a pure Virgin brought forth for us the Son of God and in childbirth and after childbirth forever remained a pure, intact Virgin."12 Zwingli used Exodus 4:22 to defend the doctrine of Mary's perpetual virginity.

        "I esteem immensely the Mother of God, the ever chaste, immaculate Virgin Mary."13

        "Christ ... was born of a most undefiled Virgin."14

        "It was fitting that such a holy Son should have a holy Mother."15

        "The more the honor and love of Christ increases among men, so much the esteem and honor given to Mary should grow."16


NOTES

        1 Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], volume 24, 107.

        2 Martin Luther, op. cit., Volume 11, 319-320.

        3 Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works,

        English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St.

        Louis], Volume 4, 694.

        4 [Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) 10, p. 268.

        5 [Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works

        (Translation by William J. Cole) 10, III, p.313.

        6 Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Volume 51, 128-129.

        7 John Calvin, Calvini Opera [Braunshweig-Berlin, 1863-1900], Volume 45, 35.

        8 Bernard Leeming, "Protestants and Our Lady", Marian Library Studies, January 1967, p.9.

        9 John Calvin, Calvini Opera [Braunshweig-Berlin, 1863-1900], Volume 45, 348.

        10 John Calvin, A Harmony of Matthew, Mark and Luke (St. Andrew's Press, Edinburgh, 1972), p.32.

        11 Ulrich Zwingli, In Evang. Luc., Opera Completa [Zurich, 1828-42], Volume 6, I, 639

        12 Ulrich Zwingli, Zwingli Opera, Corpus Reformatorum, Volume 1, 424.

        13 E. Stakemeier, De Mariologia et Oecumenismo, K. Balic, ed., (Rome, 1962), 456.

        14 Ibid.

        15 Ibid.

        16 Ulrich Zwingli, Zwingli Opera, Corpus Reformatorum, Volume 1, 427-428.