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The Virgin Mary Theotokos in Orthodox Piety
2019From the time of the Council of Ephesus (431), the veneration of the Mother of God (Theotokos) experienced substantial growth, placing the Virgin in the foreground of the piety of all the Oriental Churches. The Virgin is present in the prayer life of the Orthodox Churches as expressed in Orthodox liturgy and spirituality in all countries of the Eastern
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Theotokos, Another Spelling of My Name
Abstract This chapter describes how Mary became ground zero for understanding the person and work of Jesus Christ and the schema of redemption at the heart of the Christian faith. Picking up with the narratives of the New Testament, the chapter reads the birth stories of Mary and Elisabeth against patriarchy, examines how paternal ...openaire +1 more source