“This book.” Notes John McHugh in his Introduction, “is an attempt to answer the fundamental question: what does the New Testament teach about Mary, the mother of Jesus?” To this end, he has written a work of impeccable scholarship that explores in detail all the New Testament evidence concerning Mary, her life, and her place in Christian thought. This includes a full treatment of St. Luke’s Infancy Narrative and the doctrine of Mary’s virginity, as well as a study of Mary in the theology of St. John.
Professor McHugh uses modern critical methods to reveal the historicity of the Virgin Birth and its deeper significance to Christ’s life and mission. Ranging over the whole corpus of Western theology. In all, the author presents Mary as the one who will always serve as the best model of the purest faith. Though scholarly in nature, readers will find this book an eloquent, and even passionate reaffirmation of a central reaching of Christianity. A fresh examination of Marian doctrines engaged in ecumenical discussion, it is the only full-length study its kind in English.