The Real Mary

Mary, the mother of Jesus tends to elicit a phobic reaction among those who are heirs of the Protestant Reformation. And yet she is revered by millions and scripture itself encourages us to 'bless' her. A number of years ago I read Max Thurian's Mary mother of the Lord, figure of the Church which made a good case for seeing her as a prototypical Christian and therefore worthy of our respect and meditation. The ought to be some middle ground between her erasure, which is what really happens in a lot of non-Catholic or non-Orthodox, and some of the excesses of Marian devotion which surely do slip off the end off acceptable. Can it benefit us to explore that. That's what I think Scot McKnight's book is about and why I'm hoping to promote us thinking about it further...

Join thousands of people around the world in an online discussion of
THE REAL MARY by Scot McKnight.
Scot's dynamic new book is not yet available (it will be on November 1),
but Paraclete Press is making available the Table of Contents and first two
chapters now. Click here for access to this excerpt, and also look for it on websites and blogs across the country starting today.

In the introduction Scot says;

...no one has written a book about the life and character of Mary helping us develop a positive, Protestant view of Mary. Allow me to say this more forcibly: We are Protestants; we believe in the Bible; Mary is in the Bible; we need to believe what the Bible says about Mary

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