Mariology

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This class introduces students to Mariology, with a special emphasis on the four Marian dogmas—divine motherhood, perpetual virginity, Immaculate Conception, and Assumption. Topics discussed will include the relationship of the Virgin Mary to the Holy Trinity, the Virgin’s primacy in the spiritual life, and controversies over the definition of the dogma of Mary’s Co-Redemption in the twentieth century. Special attention will also be given to the role of Marian apparitions in the development of Church teaching and the Church’s theology of private revelations. Readings will include St. Thomas Aquinas, Bl. Duns Scotus, Gerard Manley Hopkins, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Pavel Florensky, Sergius Bulgakov, Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyr, and Pope St. John Paul II (among others).