Book Description

This work originated with the desire to imitate the Blessed Mother in her loving devotion to her Son, the Word of God (cf. Lk 2:19, 51). From this, sprung a theological method and, subsequently, a biblical understanding of Our Lady and her integral role in the economy of salvation. Fiat: Biblical Mariology and Marian Consecration is not a systematic treatise on Mariology. It is, rather, a Marian approach toward Sacred Scripture. By adopting this distinctive, theological method, many facets of Mariology come into relief, most vividly in the Marian texts themselves. Certain insights appear particularly significant, inasmuch as they offer scriptural evidence for two Marian dogmas: the Immaculate Conception (see Lk 1:29) and the Perpetual Virginity of Mary (see Mt 1:20, 24).The Marian commentaries include: the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Annunciation to St. Joseph, the Presentation in the Temple, the Finding in the Temple, the Wedding Feast at Cana, and the Crucifixion. Additional commentaries are: Genesis, St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Epistles. Of particular, apologetic interest is the exposition on John 6, the Bread of Life Discourse.The second part of the book establishes a theology of Marian Consecration. One central, Mariological tenet is the idea that the Word assumed, at His Incarnation, not only a human nature, but also a human act: namely, the Fiat of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. Consequently, not only is Our Lord's Sacred Humanity communicable to us in the Most Blessed Sacrament, but Our Lady's Fiat (her Yes to God) has also become communicable, for us, in the process of justification. Last, a praxis of Marian consecration is charted, based upon the six wings of the blessed seraphim and the virtues praised by our seraphic father, Saint Francis of Assisi.The accompanying website for this book, biblicalmariology.com offers the entire content of this book for free, as it is written: freely you have received, freely give (Mt 10:8).