Antioch-on-the-Orontes and its Territory: A “terra dura” for Mariology?
Evidence of the cult of Mary from the region of Antioch in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries is patchy¹. What evidence we have has been interpreted by scholars to suggest that this territory was far from fertile where mariology is concerned. The greatest stumbling-block here has been the depict...
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Zusammenfassung: | Evidence of the cult of Mary from the region of Antioch in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries is patchy¹. What evidence we have has been interpreted by scholars to suggest that this territory was far from fertile where mariology is concerned. The greatest stumbling-block here has been the depictions of Mary in the work of that most influential Antiochene, John Chrysostom. In 1933 Louis Meyer, in an otherwise hagiographical work on the famous preacher, detected “un ton un peu détaché que Chrysostome – comme tous les théologiens d’Antioche – affecte envers la Très sainte Vierge”.² In 1952 Ignaz Ortiz de Urbina |
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