9780268033903-0268033900-Mary's Bodily Assumption

Mary's Bodily Assumption

ISBN-13: 9780268033903
ISBN-10: 0268033900
Edition: 1
Author: Matthew Levering
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Format: Paperback 280 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780268033903
ISBN-10: 0268033900
Edition: 1
Author: Matthew Levering
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Format: Paperback 280 pages

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Mary's Bodily Assumption (ISBN-13: 9780268033903 and ISBN-10: 0268033900), written by authors Matthew Levering, was published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles books. You can easily purchase or rent Mary's Bodily Assumption (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $5.65.

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In Mary’s Bodily Assumption, Matthew Levering presents a contemporary explanation and defense of the Catholic doctrine of Mary’s bodily Assumption. He asks: How does the Church justify a doctrine that does not have explicit biblical or first-century historical evidence to support it? With the goal of exploring this question more deeply, he divides his discussion into two sections, one historical and the other systematic.

Levering’s historical section aims to retrieve the rich Mariological doctrine of the mid-twentieth century. He introduces the development of Mariology in Catholic Magisterial documents, focusing on Pope Pius XII’s encyclical Munificentissimus Deus of 1950, in which the bodily Assumption of Mary was dogmatically defined, and two later Magisterial documents, Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium and Pope John Paul II’s Redemptoris Mater. Levering addresses the work of the neo-scholastic theologians Joseph Duhr, Aloïs Janssens, and Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange before turning to the great theologians of the nouvelle théologie―Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Louis Bouyer, Joseph Ratzinger―and their emphasis on biblical typology. Using John Henry Newman as a guide, Levering organizes his systematic section by the three pillars of the doctrine on which Mary’s Assumption rests: biblical typology, the Church as authoritative interpreter of divine revelation under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and the fittingness of Mary’s Assumption in relation to the other mysteries of faith.

Levering’s ecumenical contribution is a significant engagement with Protestant biblical scholars and theologians; it is also a reclamation of Mariology as a central topic in Catholic theology.

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