TY - BOOK AU - Maunder,Chris TI - Origins of the cult of the Virgin Mary SN - 9780860124566 (pbk.) AV - BT 645 .O73 2008 U1 - 232.91 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York PB - Burns & Oates KW - Mary, KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The early cult of Mary and inter-religious contexts in the fifth-century church / John McGuckin -- Origins of the cult of the Virgin Mary in the New Testament / Chris Maunder -- The origins of Marian art in the catacombs and the problems of identification / Geri Parlby -- Mary in the apocryphal New Testament / J. K. Elliot -- The cult of the Virgin in the fourth century: a fresh look at some old and new sources / Stephen Shoemaker -- The Theotokos and the Council of Ephesus / Richard M. Price -- Did Cyril of Alexandria invent Mariology? / Antonia Atanassova -- The life-bearing spring / Margaret Barker -- Candlemas: a festival of Roman origin / Alistair MacGregor -- Pope John VII's devotion to Mary: papal images of Mary from the fifth to the early eighth centuries / Eileen Rubery ER -