Who Is My Mother?: The Role and Status of the Mother of Jesus in the New Testament and Roman Catholicism

For most of the Protestant world, Mary, the mother of Jesus, remains an enigma. Who is this woman of whom the Scriptures tell us little? Is she the model of the ideal disciple of Christ, or simple a vessel from which the Savior took His humanity? In this exhaustively thorough book, scholar Eric D. Svendsen combs the depths of this question. His findings will enlighten, surprise - or even anger the reader.