1. INTRODUCTION
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25 July 2010
[The following is taken, with permission of the author and publisher, from The Truth About Mary: Mary in Scripture and the Historic Christian Faith (Truth about Mary)
1. INTRODUCTION
The trilogy The Truth About Mary: A Scriptural Introduction to the Mother of Jesus for Bible-Believing Christians sets out to show that the doctrines of Mary's Immaculate Conception, Perpetual Virginity, Divine Maternity, Assumption and Maternal Mediation are inescapably rooted in Scripture. Volume One is Starting Points in Discerning Biblical Truth, Volume Two is Mary in Scripture and the Historic Christian Faith and Volume Three is A Response to Fundamentalist Misconceptions and a Return to Historic Christianity. This booklet is a summary of the trilogy that, we hope, will stimulate the reader's interest in the trilogy itself and in the numerous works cited therein.
From Genesis to Revelation, from Bethlehem to Cana to Calvary, the most powerful procession of images in Scripture is the dazzling vision of the Woman and her Seed, the Virgin and her Son, the Queen-Mother and the King, the Daughter of Zion and the messianic Son of Man, the New Adam and the New Eve. This striking sequence of scriptural icons locked itself into the minds and hearts of the Christian faithful, starting with the Apostolic Community of the first century, the first Fathers and the earliest
