Mariology
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the body of belief, doctrine, and opinion concerning the Virgin Mary.
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the study of the person and nature of the Virgin Mary, especially in reference to her role in the incarnation of God in Christ.
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Father Laurentin specialized in Mariology, the study of the Virgin Mary, but his columns for France’s Le Figaro newspaper and his scores of books often ranged far afield.
From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2017
If only part of Mariology is Biblically based, where is the remnant revealed?
From Time Magazine Archive
Protestant laymen still generally feel this way but, says Lutheran Theologian Joseph Sittler of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "there is new thinking on the part of Protestant scholars about Mariology."
From Time Magazine Archive
His Paradiso contains the best treatise on Mariology.
From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)
The growth of devotion to her is recorded in the vast literature of Mariology which comes to us from all parts and all eras of the Catholic Church.
From Our Lady Saint Mary by Barry, J. G. H.
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