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Issue 83 : Mary in the Imagination of the Church

Originally published in 2004

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Mary: Did You Know?

The Seven Joys of Mary

Chris Armstrong
Mary: From the Editor

Mary and the Flabbergasting Fact

Chris Armstrong
A Kinder Inquisition, Name That Tomb, and Chunky Monks

Ted Olsen
The Model Missionary?

David Brainerd's admired status is ironic, since in many respects he was a failure.

William Booth
Eyewitness

The spark that lit the Welsh revival
Recovering a Protestant Mary

A conversation with Timothy George
Hail Mary

Her moment of obedience triggered two millennia of reverence.

David Lyle Jeffrey
That Most Familiar Story

How certain details of the nativity became tradition.

Sarah E. Dahl
Mary & Her Baby: Luther's View

The Reformer loved to dwell on the nativity. Here are a few of his thoughts.
Mary in the Imagination of the Church
Temple & Sword

At the temple, long before the cross, her son's cruel death pierced Mary.

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
The Hidden Years

What did Mary do during the youth and ministry of her son?

Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner
Mary at the Cross

From three little verses in John has come a rich tradition of song and art.

Patrick Henry Reardon
The Queen Mother?

John seems to tap a Hebrew political tradition to show Mary in an exalted role.

Patrick Henry Reardon
Mary: Recommended Resources

A few good places for Protestants to explore the church's thought on the mother of our Lord.

Steven Gertz and Chris Armstrong
People Worth Knowing

Discovering devotional masters

Richard Foster
The Day God Settled the ‘Bible Question’ for Billy Graham

At stake was nothing less than the reliability of Scripture.

Patrick Henry Reardon
The Doctor Who Followed Jesus to Africa

Dr. Timothy Johnson

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