Book review Maria, „Mutter der Einheit” („Mater unitatis”) ed. M. Hauke, Regensburg 2020, pp. 392

Abstract

The collective work is the fruit of a symposium held in 2018 in Würzburg on Mary, Mother of Unity. It consists of eighteen articles. The first shows Mary’s concern for unity as a manifestation of her spiritual motherhood. The next two present the Mother of Unity in the perspective of the Gospels of John and Luke. In the following texts, the teachings of St. Augustine, St. J.H. Newman, Leo XIII, Ch. Lubich, and the Second Vatican Council are brought to bear on the same theme. There is no lack of Protestant positions (K. Barth and H. Asmussen) and the motif of the Mother of Unity in the Roman liturgy and Schoenstatt spirituality. The final article attempts to read the Marian message of the German poet J.W. Goethe. All articles deal mainly with unity in an ecclesial and ecumenical perspective.