The blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic thought.

 

 Father Luigi Gambero, internationally-known expert on early Christiannity, 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 Father and early Christian writers, Fr. Gambero has produced a clear and readable summary of the richness of the patristic age's theological and devotional approach to the mother of God.

 

The book contains extensive and numerous citation from the works of those men who developed the defending Christological and Mariological positions that, throughout the ages, have constitued the central the foundational doctrinal teaching of the Church. Each chapter concludes with an extended reading from the works of the patristic authors. A number of these texts have never been before published in English.