Mary of Nazareth: The Mother of Jesus as Remembered by the Earliest Christians

A theology of Mary’s role in the incarnation as it was understood by the earliest Christians.

A central figure in Christian tradition, Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus, is both pivotal in theologies of the incarnation and a source of theological controversy. In this volume, bible scholar and priest Christopher Bryan examines the role of Mary in the theology of the first generations of Christians. Considering every reference to Mary in the New Testament in the order that the biblical tex...