The early cult of Mary and inter-religious contexts in the fifth-century church / John McGuckin
Origins of the cult of the Virgin Mary in the New Testament / Chris Maunder
The origins of Marian art in the catacombs and the problems of identification / Geri Parlby
Mary in the apocryphal New Testament / J. K. Elliot
The cult of the Virgin in the fourth century: a fresh look at some old and new sources / Stephen Shoemaker
The Theotokos and the Council of Ephesus / Richard M. Price
Did Cyril of Alexandria invent Mariology? / Antonia Atanassova
The life-bearing spring / Margaret Barker
Candlemas: a festival of Roman origin / Alistair MacGregor
Pope John VII's devotion to Mary: papal images of Mary from the fifth to the early eighth centuries / Eileen Rubery
Origins of the cult of the Virgin Mary. ISBN 9780860124566. Published by Burns & Oates in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.