MARY AND THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought By LUIGI GAMBERO

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Father Luigi Gambero, internationally-known expert on early Christianity, presents an intriguing and comprehensive survey of the development of Marian doctrine and devotion during the first eight Christian centuries. Focusing on the lives and works of over thirty of the most famous Church Fathers and early Christian writers, Fr. Gambero has produced a clear and readable summary of the the richness of the patristic age’s theological and devotional approach to the Mother of God. The books contains extensive and numerous citations from the works of those men who developed the defining Christological  and Mariological positions that, through the ages, have constituted the central and foundational doctrinal teachings of the Church Each chapter concludes with an extended reading from the works of the patristic authors  A number of these texts have never before been published in English.Paper.