Book review Regina Willi, Mutter – Gefährtin – Jüngerin. Maria im Spiegel patristischer und scholastischer Schriftauslegung, Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2021, ss. 368

Abstract

The book is a collection of six dissertations on the subject of theological image of Mary from patristic and scholastic perspective of the Scripture. Premature death of the author did not allow for the publication to form a coherent whole. Her coworkers, having introduced some minor editorial corrections, decided to publish her typescript (without an introduction or a conclusion). Regina Willi chose a few pericopes and Marian motifs from the Scripture (e.g. Mulier fortis, Mater Ecclesiae, Mater unitatis, Sedes sapientiae). Basing on these examples she shows how the Fathers of the Church and medieval writers analyzed and interpreted them in order to discover their allegorical meaning. They desired to deepen their understanding of the mystery of Mary.