Queen Mother: A Biblical Theology of Mary’s Queenship

Is there a blog post about it?

I received an email about the offer. Although I can't  see this resource specifically mentioned in this blog here is the link for the Verbum Blog - http://scripturestudysoftware.com/blog/?utm_source=catholic&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4487577&utm_campaign=verbum2013q2

Note that all month the focus will be on Mary.

You might check this out for a Biblical refutation to mariology:

This is Ted Sri's doctoral discertation.  It is very scholary.  The table of contents is below.  Writing style can be seen in the sample pages from Chapter One.  I'm not sure if it acceptable that I post the brief introduction here.  I would be happy to do so if someone could give me a ruling and if it would help the forum readers.  Let me know.

I would love to read this dissertation. It is available for purchase?

While I am not a Catholic and never have been, I bought the book and read it immediately since the treatment of Mary by the Catholic Church has always been a matter of disagreement with me.

In regard to Is 7 it is assumed that the עלמה was the queen mother

In regard to Is 7 it is assumed that the עלמה was the queen mother though there is virtually no evidence for that.

I may get fire back for posting the following, but please bear with me. It goes without saying of course, to understand the many Catholic Marian dogmas, one needs to (at least for the sake of reducing the confusion) step out of the paradigm of expectation that everything should be explicit in scripture alone, and allow for the historical aspect to help (tradition of interpretation and prayer in the church). Anglicans, as far as I know, like Catholics, believe that God speaks through the Church, the councils, holy tradition, nature, reason etc. Have I got that wrong? And as MJ reminds us once every while, lex orandi lex credendi. [:)]

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.

You might check this out for a Biblical refutation to mariology:

http://churchmousec.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/john-macarthur-on-mariolatry-part-1/

http://churchmousec.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/john-macarthur-on-mariolatry-part-2/

http://churchmousec.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/emotion-sensation-mary-and-ecumenism-one-world-religion/

I'm glad this is not typical of John MacArthur. It does serve as a very good example of why one should read Pelikan, Macquarrie and Sri to have an accurate picture of what you are accepting/rejecting. These blog posts earn their own personal, ultra-large and rare version of the famous hound

I would suggest that you check out Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan [not in Logos] as this is a case where an understanding of church history - east & west - is more helpful in understanding than the Biblical defense.

Thanks M.J. Maybe you could suggest that Logos carry this book as I can see how it would be helpful.

How is that a "discount"?

The discount offer was sent to Bruce via email… (He probably shouldn't have said anything about it [:P]). Your best bet would be to contact customer service.