{"id":6208,"date":"2006-08-30T14:28:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/mary-for-evangelicals.html"},"modified":"2006-08-30T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:28:42","slug":"mary-for-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/mary-for-evangelicals.html","title":{"rendered":"Mary for Evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this dense, learned study, Perry, a professor of theology at Manitoba\u2019s Providence College, attempts to bridge the different accounts of Mary that have long divided Catholics and evangelicals. The book was born of Protestant Perry\u2019s nagging sense that his tradition did not give the mother of Jesus her due. He insists, in good Protestant fashion, on grounding his evangelical Mariology in scripture, not in \u201cpost-biblical legends.\u201d Perry first examines how Mary figures in the New Testament. The major New Testament writers, according to Perry, had wildly different views of Mary, with Luke seeing her as a prophet and Paul viewing her as \u201cno more than an anonymous mother.\u201d Perry then turns to the Church Fathers, arguing that medieval doctrines about Mary were not new inventions, but elaborations and clarifications of doctrines that were articulated in the patristic era. He concludes the book with a constructive (but too brief) Protestant theology of Mary, including the controversial claim that, in some senses, it is appropriate to consider Mary a \u201cmediator.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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