Description: A theology of Mary's role in the incarnation as it was understood by the earliest Christians.
Brief description: Christopher Bryan is an Anglican priest, New Testament scholar, and novelist. Educated at Oxford and Exeter University, Bryan was ordained a priest in the Church of England and has also served in the Episcopal Church. Now retired, he has taught at Salisbury Theological College and the School of Theology at Sewanee: The University of the South, where he was the C. K. Benedict Professor of New Testament. Bryan is the author of Son of God: Reflections on a Tradition, Listening to the Bible: The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation, The Resurrection of the Messiah, Render to Caesar: Jesus, the Roman Superpower, and The Early Church, and God Spoke: The Authority of the Bible for the Church Today, as well as numerous novels. He lives in Exeter, England.
Review Quotes: "This book will be very useful to anyone interested either in the first century context of the Marian references in the New Testament, or in the history of their interpretation down to the present day."-- "Thomas Crean, O.P., Librarian, St Dominic's, London"