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Foreword by Hans Urs von Balthasar
JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER
I. “My Word Shall Not Return To Me Empty!”: Isaiah 55:10-11; Matthew 6:7-15
II. Thoughts on the Place of Marian Doctrine and Piety in Faith and Theology as a Whole
1. The Background and Significance of the Second Vatican Council’s Declarations on Mariology
2. The Positive Function of Mariology in Theology
3. The Place of Mariology in the Whole of Theology
4. Mariology—Anthropology—Faith in Creation
5. Marian Piety
III. The Sign of the Woman: An Introductory Essay on the Encyclical Redemptoris Mater
I. Methodological Aspects
1. Reading the Bible as a Whole
2. The Feminine Line in the Bible
3. A Historical and Dynamic Mariology
4. Bimillenarism?
II. Four Focal Points of the Text
1. Mary—The Believer
2. The Sign of the Woman
3. Marian Mediation
4. Interpretation of the Marian Year
IV. “Hail, Full of Grace”: Elements of Marian Piety according to the Bible
Mary, Daughter Zion—Mother of Believers
Mary as Prophetess
Mary in the Paschal Mystery
V. “Et Incarnatus Est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine”
1. The Grammar and Content of the Sentence “Et Incarnatus Est” in the Creed
2. “Et Incarnatus Est”: The Biblical Background
a. Matthew 1:18-25
b. Luke 1:26-38
c. The Prologue of John’s Gospel
3. God’s Footprints
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR
I. Mary In The Church’s Doctrine and Devotion
Introduction
I. Mary’s Relation to the Person and Work of Her Son
1. A New Aspect
2. The Dimensions of the Marian Yes
3. Mary’s Education as Mother of the Church
4. Archetype of the Church
5. Jesus and Mary
II. Mary in the Church’s Devotion
1. Veneration of Mary
2. Veneration and Imitation
3. Why Mary Stands out in the Communion of Saints
II. The Marian Mold of the Church
Owing Thanks for Oneself in the Order of Creation
Owing Thanks for Oneself in the Order of Grace: Christ
Owing Thanks for Oneself in the Order of Grace: The Christian
The Church and Mary
Type and Archetype
III. Conceived by the Holy Spirit, Born of the Virgin Mary
IV. The Catholicity of the Church
Anthropological Catholicity
Christological Catholicity
Acknowledgments
Notes
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