Mary, Daughter Zion

This book is an original study of the Marian discourses of Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) who is recognised as a major modern theologian within and without the Catholic Church. It evinces Ratzinger's ability to open new horizons in inherited teaching and new ways of understanding it within the parameters of orthodox theology.

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Fr Martin Ifeanyi Onuoha, also the author of Actio Divina: The Marian Mystery of the Church in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger, is a theology lecturer and examiner to the B. Div. and Postgraduate students at Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, UK. Faculté Nôtre-Dame, Paris, who oversees Maryvale s Pontifi cal status, appointed him permanent faculty and a member of the HIRS Council in 2014. He holds a doctorate and a Licence in Sacred Theology from the Pontifi cal University of the Holy Cross, Rome, with dissertations on the Writings of Joseph Ratzinger, both of which were awarded summa cum laude. He is a member of the Theological Commission of the International Marian Association, of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and of the Catholic Theological Association of Nigeria. He is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Ahiara, Mbaise, in Imo State, Nigeria, ordained in 2001, after receiving degrees in Philosophy and Theology from the Pontifi cal Urban University, Rome (through Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu), and a HND in Mass Communication from Enugu State University of Science and Technology. In addition to his lecturing duties, he is currently the parish priest of the parishes of Our Lady and the Apostles, St Ambrose, and St Vincent, Stockport, while providing priest-chaplaincy support for Aquinas College, St James Catholic High School, and the Nigeria-African chaplaincy, Liverpool.

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Contents: Ratzinger the Theologian and His Theological Method - Mary in the Old Testament -Mary in the Infancy Narratives of the New Testament - Mary in the New Testament as a Whole -The Marian Dogmas - Pedagogue of Continuity (The Centrality of Mary's 'Yes') - The Placing and Contexts of Mariology.