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Mary: The Untrodden Portal of God

George S. Gabriel

“[This...]discourse[...]is a small offering toward a unified view of the mystery of Mary the Mother of God. Her mystery belongs to the seamless unity of the theology of the one Holy, Orthodox, Catholic and Apostolic Church, a theological integrity that is absent from heterodox churches, eastern and western, professing to honor the mother of Jesus Christ. [...]The single theme underlying this study is the indivisible oneness of the doctrine and veneration of the Mother of God with the single theology and biblical methodology of the Ancient Church and the holy fathers.”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
EZEKIEL’S PROPHECY OF THE EAST PORTAL
INTRODUCTION
I. THE MYSTERY OF MARY
   The mystery hidden from the ages
   A succession of chosen and hallowed generations
   Mary’s free choice or predestination?
II. MOTHERHOOD TO GOD
   The seedless and virginal conception
   The second angelic annunciation: “Thy Son is risen.”
III. EVER-VIRGINITY
   Ever-virginity and motherhood to God are one.
   Joseph “knew her not till she brought forth...”
   Jesus, Mary’s “firstborn son”
   The “brethren” of Jesus
   “This portal shall be shut, and no one shall enter by it.”
IV. “IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF CHILDBIRTH”
   “The firstborn male that opens the womb...”
V. THE FINAL MYSTERY
   The third angelic annunciation
   “Your tomb heralds your translation to Heaven in the body.”
VI. THE PAPAL CHASM
   The Immaculate Conception
   The Assumption
   Orthodox perspectives
VII. TWO SALVATIONS
   Two views of divine justice
   The wages of sin
   Two different salvations, two different Virgins
VIII. THE INCARNATION: CAUSE OF ALL THINGS MADE, AND CAUSED BY NONE
   “Rejoice, O fulfillment of the Creator’s economy.
IX. “NOT BY WORDS ALONE”
   Abraham’s tent prefigured the Virgin’s womb.
   “He Who was not come as yet was present.”
   The Father never appears to men.
   If He was seen by the Prophets, Mary was His mother.
   Mystical models of the future
X. MARY, THE TOUCHSTONE OF TRINITARIAN FAITH
   Orthodoxy in collision with forbidden images
   “The Lord is depicted at times as white haired and at times as young.”
   “O Christ, we know no other God but Thee.”
   The doctrine of prototypes
   Mary, the guardian of the dogma of the Holy Trinity
   Mary’s Son is the Father’s only Image.
XI. MARY THE MEDIATRESS
   One mediation of the Mediator and the Mediatress
   Power to do all that she wills
   Mother and symbol of the Church
PLATES AND DESCRIPTIONS
APPENNDIX A:
   1. Predestination in Western Theology
   2. The 1666 Council of Moscow on Icons of the Holy Trinity
APPENNDIX B:
   Homily on the Sunday of the Myrrh Bearers by St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GENERAL INDEX

Item Number: BKZ606
Publication data: Ridgewood, NJ: Zephyr, 2005
Format: softcover
Number of pages: ii + 210
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.2 cm × 13.7 cm × 1.5 cm
Additional information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 0‒9707303‒0‒6

$20.95 (USD)