Mary
A History of
Doctrine & Devotion

Popular Marian Devotion is frequently embedded in a people's culture. In his reply to Dr. Pusey's Eirenicon, Cardinal Newman made a distinction between belief, which one and the same everywhere, and 'expressions of devotion," which differ rom place to place...

This clear text will continue to serve many as an introduction of the history of Marian doctrine and devotion-- which must then be integrated in the larger theological context.