Lời giới thiệu |
5 |
Lời nói đầu |
7 |
Preface |
9 |
Abbreviations |
11 |
Chapter I : INTRODUCTION |
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The Revelation of God to Mankind |
21 |
A Favorite Model of Revelation |
26 |
Is the Bible Relavetion |
30 |
Ways to Use the Models of Revelation |
33 |
A Way to Explain Revelation or Faith |
36 |
Can People Really Assent to Mysteries? |
41 |
Things People Can Really Be Certain About |
45 |
How the illative Sence Works |
49 |
A List of Definded Dogmas |
52 |
What Must a Catholic Really Believe? |
57 |
About Marian Dogmas |
65 |
Four Marian Dogmas |
67 |
Perpetual Virginity (Baptismal formula: 3rd century) |
67 |
Divine Motherhood (Ephesus 431) |
68 |
Immaculate Conception (Pius IX, Dec 8, 1854) |
70 |
Assumption (Pius XII, Now 1, 1950) |
71 |
Meaning of the Marian Dogmas |
74 |
Chapter II: DIVINE MOTHERHOOD |
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A View of History, Etymology and Theology |
84 |
Scriptural Basis |
89 |
Early Christian Attitude |
93 |
Mother of God |
104 |
Heavenly Mother, Queen Mother |
117 |
Chapter III: PERPETUAL VIRGINITY |
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A General View of The Dogma |
123 |
Joseph, the Husband of Mary |
132 |
The Brothers of the Lord |
138 |
The Virginity and Married State |
142 |
More Meanings of Perpetual Virginity |
147 |
Scriptural Basis to Be Quoted |
154 |
Chapter IV: IMMACULATE CONCEPTION |
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History of the Dogma |
161 |
The Doctrine |
167 |
From Scripture |
177 |
From Tradition |
180 |
Form Reason |
185 |
Mary's Sinlessness |
190 |
Living in Mary: Her Sanctification |
195 |
The Controversy |
205 |
Further Theological Developments |
211 |
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception |
224 |
Chapter V: ASSUMTION |
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Dormition of ther Theotokos |
228 |
A General View of The Relevant Dogma |
231 |
The Church's Teaching |
237 |
Scriptual and Traditional Basis |
245 |
Scriptual Readings for the Feast |
246 |
Vigil Reading |
246 |
Readings of the Day |
247 |
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:20 - 27 |
248 |
Gospel Reading: Lk 1:39 - 56 |
249 |
A Dogma of the Faith |
250 |
Feasts of the Assumtion and the Observance |
258 |
Chapter VI: MOTHER OF THE CHURCH |
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A View of the Title of the Church |
267 |
Biblical Basis |
273 |
The Mother of the Church |
287 |
The Second Eve: Spiritual Mother |
301 |
Early Christian Witness |
307 |
Understanding Our Life on Earth |
311 |
Living Up to the Title |
313 |
Chapter VII: APPLICTION FOR MINISTRY |
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1. Who is ther Blessed Virgin Mary? |
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2. What order do the theology and history of Mary the Mother of God follow? |
316 |
3. Where does the Old Testament refer to Our Blessed Lady? |
316 |
4. Where is the first prophecy referring to Mary found? |
316 |
5. What does the seed of ther serpent denote? |
317 |
6. Where is the second prophecy refering to Mary found? |
317 |
7. Which general Messianic promises made to the house of David cannot be frustrated? |
317 |
8. Is the virgin mentioned above by the prophet is Mary the Mother of Christ? |
318 |
9. What obscurity or ambiguity is removed by Matthew 1:18 - 25? |
318 |
10. Where is the third prophecy referring to Mary found? |
319 |
11. How does the prophecy refer to the Virgin Mary? |
319 |
12. Where is the fourth prophecy referring to Mary found? |
320 |
13. What should be understood abour Mary's Davidic ancestry? |
320 |
14. Who were Mary's parents? |
321 |
15. What is the hometown of Mary's parents? |
321 |
16.Regarding the place of ther birth of Mary, how many traditions can be considered? |
322 |
17. What was Mary's betrothal to Joseph? |
322 |
18. What ar the two points we should draw attention to when Mary came to visit Elizabeth? |
323 |
19. When did Mary's pregnancy become known to Joseph? |
324 |
20. What does the Godpel talk about the way Joseph concluded the ritual marriage contract with Mary not long after the revelation? |
324 |
21. Why should Mary have accompained Joseph on the journey to Bethlehem? |
324 |
22. When did Mary give birth to Our Lord? |
325 |
23. Regarding Mary's perpetual virginity, what can be quoted to show that Mary retained her virginity during the conception of her Divine Son? |
325 |
24. How is it about Mary's virginity after her childbirth? |
326 |
25. What is Mary's Divine motherhood based on? |
326 |
26. What can we talk about Mary's perfect sanctity? |
326 |
27. How was Mary during the apostolic life of Our Lord? |
327 |
28. Where was Mary during the Passion of Our Lord? |
328 |
29. Where was Mary while Jesus was hanging on the cross? |
328 |
30. Where was Mary during Our Lord's Resurrection? |
328 |
31. Where was Mary after Christ's Ascension into Heaven? |
329 |
32. What does Galatians 4:4 say? |
329 |
33. Why is Apocalypse 12:1 - 6 singularly applicable to Our Blessed Mother? |
329 |
34. What happened to the life place of Mary on the day of Pentecost? |
330 |
35. What can we say about the place of Mary's life, death, and burial? |
330 |
36. What can be served as a sign of the veneration Christians had for the Mother of God? |
331 |
37. What may we conclude as the praises of Mary grow with the growth of the Christian community? |
331 |
38. Does the title Mother of the Church suggest that Mary is her own Mother? |
331 |
39. If the Church is our mother, and Mary is the Mother of the Church, does that make Mary our grandmother? |
332 |
40. Does the Bible refute the Catholic teaching that Mary is the Mother of the Church because in Matthew 16:16, Jesus said "I will build My Church"? |
332 |
41. Mary was not made an Apostle, she was never given a position of authority above other Christians |
333 |
42. Mary is just another member of the Church, not the Mother of the Church? |
333 |
43. I still cannot see how she could be my Mother! |
333 |
44. If Jesus intended His statement "Behold my Mother" to apply to all Christians, that would mean that every Christian would have to take Mary "into his care" as Saint John did? |
334 |
45. How does Jesus' Mother have her maternal role in regard to John, the beloved disciple, and by extension to all the disciples and to the Church? |
335 |
46. Motherhood ceases at death, so Mary cannot be considered the Mother of anyone now. |
335 |
47. My calling Mary "Our heavenly Mother," don't we make her equal to God our heavenly Father? |
337 |
48. Isn't the Church our Mother? |
337 |
49. If the Church is our Mother then we do not need Mary |
338 |
50. How can we have two spiritual Mothers? |
339 |
51. Was Mary's cooperation an assential element of the Redemption? |
339 |
52. What does the Church teach about Mary as Coredemptrix? |
339 |
53. What do you understand about Mary as Coredemptrix? |
340 |
54. How is it about the role of Mary as the Mediatrix of all grace? |
340 |
55. What does John 19:26 - 27 mean specifically for our life? |
341 |
56. What does it mean by "Mary's virginity before giving birth, while giving birth, and after giving birth"? |
342 |
57. Does this teaching exalt Christ? |
342 |
58. What do you most learn from this Marian course? |
343 |
59. Where can you make good use of this knowledge? |
343 |
60. How can you bring all this into your ministry? |
343 |
Appendix I: FROM INEFFABILIS DEUS APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION ISSUED BY POPE PIUS IX ON DECEMBER 8,1854. |
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Supreme Reason for the Privilege : The Divine Maternity |
345 |
Liturgical Argument |
346 |
Ordinary Teaching of the Roman Church |
347 |
Veneration of the Immaculate |
348 |
The Roman Doctrine |
349 |
Papal Sanctions |
352 |
Testimonies of the Catholic World |
355 |
Appendix II: FROM LUMEN GENTIUM CHAPTER VIII: THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY MOTHER OF GOD IN THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH |
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I. Introduction |
356 |
II. The Role of the Blessed Mother in the Economy of Salvation |
358 |
III. On the Blessed Virgin and the Church |
364 |
IV. The Cult of the Blessed Virgin in the Church |
368 |
V. Mary the sign of created hope adn solace to the wandering people of God |
371 |
Appendix III: FROM CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ARTICLE 3: "HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY" |
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I. Conveived by the Power of the Holy Spirit |
373 |
II. Born of the Virgin Mary |
374 |
Mary's predestination |
375 |
The Immaculate Conception |
376 |
"Let it be done to me according to your word..." |
378 |
Mary's divine motherhood |
379 |
Mary's virginity |
379 |
Mary "ever-virgin" |
381 |
Mary's virginal motherhood in God's plan |
382 |
In Brief |
384 |
ARTICAL 9: " I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH" |
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Paragraph 6. Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church |
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I. Mary's Motherhood with Regard to the Church |
386 |
Wholly united with her Son |
386 |
... Also in her Assumption |
387 |
... She is our Mother in the order of grace |
388 |
II. Devotion to the Blessed Virgin |
389 |
III. Mary - Eschatological Icon of the Church |
390 |
In Brief |
391 |
Appendix IV: FORM THE CODE OF CANON LAW |
392 |
Appendix V: FROM THEF ENCYCLICAL REDEMPTORIS MATER |
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Introduction |
395 |
Part I - Mary in the Mystery of Christ |
405 |
1. Full of Grace |
405 |
2. Blessed is she who believed |
414 |
3. Behold your mother |
430 |
Appendix VI: DOCUMENTS TALKING ABOUT THE HOPE FOR A FIFTH MARIAN DOGMA |
Cardinals Hoping for a 5th Marian Dogma |
442 |
Cardinals' Letter Promoting Marian Dogma |
442 |
Mary Cooperates in God's Saving Plan |
443 |
Mary United Hersefl to Jesus' Offering |
443 |
Mary's Cooperation Is Totally Unique |
444 |
To the Disciple He Said, Behold Your Mother |
445 |
Mary"s Cooperation in Work of Redemption |
446 |
A New Marian Dogma? |
447 |
5th Dogma a Marian Antidote |
448 |
Gibson's Passion and Mary "Co-redemptrix" |
449 |
Selected Bibliography |
450 |
Index |
454 |