Mary, Mother of the Son Update

The book continues to do very well! For those of you who were wondering, my latest batch of 50 arrived from Catholic Answers today, so I will send out the orders that piled up over the last couple of days. If you’ve been hesitating about ordering because you saw that I was cleaned out of copies unexpectedly, hestitate no more! I’ve got another small boatload for sale!

What are they saying about Mary, Mother of the Son?

Reader SecretAgentMan declares:

The best book in English on Mary and the Church ever written. You can spend a few months chewing through Carol’s 3-volume Mariology without getting more insights into the matter than those conveyed by Mark’s lucid, erudite prose.

Random Friar sez:

I’m a Random (though not Random House) Friar, and I endorse these fine books!

Using them as a teaching tool now.

The editor of Gilbert “likes it immensely.”

Reader Cody sez:

I’ve just finished with the first book in the series, and as a convert to the faith myself, I found the content able to pull into focus some of the theological points I was still slightly hazy on.

The book is not only extremely readable, but fast-paced, with such interesting content you will find yourself re-reading a few portions to make sure you’re able to repeat some of the really interesting stuff to friends, and in general apologetic issues.

Reader Amy writes:

Not only is it an “easy” read (I say “easy” in the sense that it’s easy to understand, not simplistic), but it is full of things I never knew or considered – both when I was Lutheran and after my conversion. When I was Lutheran, I didn’t really get bothered by Marian devotion (probably because my mom is, and always was, Catholic), but as a Catholic my understanding of devotions – especially Marian devotion – is still lacking. I hope these books will help me to grow and deepen my faith.

I am eager to continue reading and finish the trilogy. I highly recommend these books to anyone who either has Protestant friends/family who don’t understand Mary or dislike our devotion or someone who is looking to deepen their faith and understanding of our Mother.

Albert McIlhenny at Christian Book Review gives it five stars (out of five).

Fr. Phil Bloom sez, “It is cheap at twice the price. The book will last and people will be quoting it in years to come.”

Fr. Dwight Longenecker sez, “I ordered Mark Shea’s Mary-Mother of the Son trilogy on the Blessed Virgin, and can heartily recommend it. I finished the first book lickety split. Really couldn’t put it down…. Read [Shea’s] Mary books. You won’t be sorry.”

And that’s not even counting all this blurbaliciousness from both Catholic and Evangelical sources:

Mark Shea has written the single most helpful book on Sacred Tradition written in our generation. In other books he has illumined the reading of Scripture and the worship of the Eucharist. Now, in Mary, Mother of the Son, he takes us to the summit of creation, the Ark of the New Covenant, the true tabernacle of the Lord. To read this book is to love Christ as a brother, by honoring the mother he shares with us (John 19:27).

Scott Hahn, Ph.D.
Professor of Scripture and Theology, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Author, Hail, Holy Queen

I recommend that Evangelicals read Mary, Mother of the Son. They will certainly find much here to challenge and disagree with, but they will also find a Catholic perspective on Mary that takes into account evangelical concerns. Mark Shea’s honest depiction of his own Marian pilgrimage contributes to greater mutual understanding about the wonderful handmaiden of the Lord whom all Christians in all generations call “blessed.”

Dr. Timothy George,
Dean, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University

With wit, wisdom, theological weight, and a whole lot of style Mark Shea delivers a work that helps readers plunge into the mystery and beauty of the Mother of the Son, the Blessed Virgin Mary. Catholics and non-Catholics alike will gain much from this well-developed trilogy and may well find themselves falling in love with the Virgin of Nazareth whose fiat birthed salvation to the world. I am eager to share Mary, Mother of the Son with everyone I know!

Johnnette S. Benkovic
Founder and President:
Women of Grace®
Living His Life Abundantly®
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Women of Grace Live Radio

This fine book exploring the Church’s teaching on Our Lady will be a joy to Catholics and a revelation to Protestants. I highly recommend it for both groups.

Father Benedict J. Groeschel, C.F.R.

Mary, Mother of the Son is a winsome book. This is not to say his arguments are not rigorous and carefully thought through. They are. Rather, it is a winsome book in that it is invitational. Mark Shea is a gracious host inviting others to explore with him the marvels of the wondrous place he now calls home, the Catholic Church.

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus
Editor-in-Chief, First Things

Mark Shea’s Mary, Mother of the Son is a comprehensive and engaging treatment of the Church’s teaching on Mary. A skilled writer, he renders complexities with simplicity without diluting them in the least. His own past experience as an Evangelical Christian and now Catholic enable him to offer helpful and thorough answers to the most common – and uncommon – questions readers from any background might have about Mary.

Amy Welborn
Author, Mary and the Christian Life

Recent years have seen a rapprochement between Catholics and Evangelicals, a large part of which has involved renewed Evangelical interest in the figure of Mary. One thinks in particular of Tim Perry’s Mary for Evangelicals or Scot McKnight’s The Real Mary. Evangelicals (as well as others) who would like to learn more about the role Mary plays in traditional Roman Catholic faith and practice now have at their disposal Mark Shea’s wonderful tripartite work, Mary, Mother of the Son. Shea’s clear, lucid, learned and often witty writing on the rich subject of Mariology is a pleasure to digest.

Dr. Leroy Huizenga
Assistant Professor of New Testament, Wheaton College

In his winsome, witty style, Mark Shea winds his way through the many rooms of Marian doctrines that separate the Roman Catholic faithful from the Protestant believer who thinks each and every doctrine must be fully supported by the Bible. I suspect curious evangelicals and skeptical Catholics will find much to think about in Mary, Mother of the Son.

Dr. Scot McKnight
Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University
Author, The Real Mary

Mark Shea did not lose any of his Evangelical zeal when he found his home in the Roman Catholic Church. In Mary, Mother of the Son, he challenges many Evangelical worries about Mary and explains both dogmatic and discretionary Marian beliefs and practices simply, clearly, and sometimes wittily. Evangelical Protestants will leave this book with a better understanding of why so many Christians find devotion to Mary to help rather than hinder devotion to her Son.

Dr. Tim Perry, Associate Professor of Theology,
Providence College,
Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada
Author, Mary for Evangelicals: Toward an Understanding of the Mother of Our Lord

I’ve been challenged to open my heart and my mind to the complexities of a love-relationship with the mother of Jesus and her living legacy . . . . I would now probably even go so far as to say her living “presence” among us. Shea is an astoundingly gifted writer; communicating with ease, depth, humor, warmth and genuine love for your readers. I applaud this amazing work of brilliance, insight, devotion and faith. “Well done, O good and faithful servant.”

The Rev. Dr. Douglas E. Millham
President, Discover the World, Inc.

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