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Introduction
This unit  explores Mariological thought in England in the Nineteenth Century. The topic is vast, and the Marian movement was aided by the influx of new converts to the  English church. The documents and readings below attempt to give you some feeling for the Marian debates within the English church during the nineteeth  century, and to illustrate the sources which Mary Potter would have used in her  own reading and which may have contributed to her own Mariological themes.

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General Introductions

		England - The dowry of Mary - An exploration
		Converts to Rome - Chapter one of a recent book by Patrick Allitt on Converts to Rome in the Nineteenth Century.  Interesting for its background to Newman and Faber.

Mariology and the Tractarians - Conflicts and Resolutions

Newman (and the Tractarians) on  the Mother of God - John Griffin

Newman's Mariology

		Newman and Devotion to our Lady
		Newman on Mary-  This is a large file containing excerpts of Newman's Writings on Mary
		Newman on the Glories of Mary

The readings that follow are from Newman's famous Certain Difficulties felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching Considered: In a  Letter addressed to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D. on occasion of his Eirenicon of 1864;And in a Letter addressed to the Duke of Norfolk, on occasion of Mr.  Gladstone's Expostulation of 1874.Volume II.  Among other issues, they address Catholic Devotion to Mary, and the excesses perceived by Anglicans. Faber's Marian devotion had served to alienate members of the Anglican communion, and Newman - whose own Mariology was considered and based soundly in  scripture and the teaching of the Fathers of the Church - was forced to defend Marian devotion, and Faber's more populist style.

		Newman to Pusey (1)
		Newman to Pusey (2)
		Newman to Pusey (3)
		Newman to Pusey (4)
		Newman to Pusey (5)

Faber's  influence and reaction to it

Dr. Pusey on the Worship of Mary in the Church of  Rome - By Spurgeon. This document also gives indication of the attitude  towards Mary held by Faber, whose emotive and expansive devotion to Mary  alienated Newman as well as Anglican apologists.

Bishop William Ullathorne How  the Fathers speak of the Dignity of the Mother of God

Discussion Topics

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		Pope Pius IX. Apostolic Letter Ineffabilis Deus Defining  the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8, 1854). In Papal Documents on Mary, complied by William Doheny and Joseph Kelly (Bruce, 1954), pp. 9-27. 240.2-1012-D655Bonnefoy, J. The Immaculate Conception in the Divine Plan.  Pp. 39-59.
		Bur, Jacques. How to Understand the Virgin Mary.  Continuum, 1996, 134p. The Immaculate Conception. 240.2-1006-B945h
		Carr, Aidan. "Mary's Immaculate Conception." Mariology.  Ed. Juniper Carol. 2 vols. Vol. 1, 328-94.
		Friethoff, C.X. A Complete Mariology. Newman, 1958. Pp.  51-67.
		Marshner, William. "The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception in  Modern Ecclesiology." Marian Studies 33 (1982) 124-46 and 34 (1983)  122-58. Hv.
		Macquarrie, John. "Immaculate Conception." Communio 7 (1980) 100-12. Explains why Anglicans can accept.
		Neubert, Emil. Mary in Doctrine. Bruce, 1954. Pp. 149-80.
		O'Connor, Edward D., C.S.C. ed. The Dogma of the Immaculate  Conception. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University, 1958.
		Owens, Gerard. "Historical Development of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception: Obstacles Inhibiting Understanding and Acceptance." Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings 9 (1954) 67-101.
		Rahner, Hugo, S.J. Our Lady and the Church. Pp.  12-21.

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