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Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought

10 reviews
Luigi Gambero

Ignatius Press, 1999

Church history at its best...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book: Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought By Luigi Gambero. It gives great insight into the process of theological development from Paul on through the Middle Ages. The chapters are arranged thoughtfully for the scholar and lay person alike, with bite size bits of information and actual exerts from the individual Church ...

Mary In The Middle Ages: The Blessed Virgin Mary In The Thought Of Medieval Latin Theologians

1 review
Luigi Gambero

Ignatius Press, 2005

An Excellent Theological and Historical Overview
I am in the process of reading, and taking notes on, Fr. Gambero's first-rate efforts. This book is the perfect follow-up to his Mary and the Fathers of the Church. Together, these books show the sound, Scriptural and Traditional development of Catholic Mariology; that the noble and exalted marian dogmas were not furtively pulled out of some isolated and obscure tract of the Christian ...