Resumen de Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion by Stephen J. Shoemaker (review)
The canonical gospels give no clear image, and the earliest church fathers had relatively little to say about her. [...]Shoemaker has to search elsewhere. [...]Chapter Six revisits the Nestorian crisis and Empress Pulcheria's much-debated role therein. Shoemaker's underlying thesis is that the Marian figure played a much more important role in early Christianity than what he calls "the Marian minimalism" (229) that previous scholarship has allowed for; Marian piety cannot be reduced to an offshoot of the christological debates around the Ephesus Council and its decree that orthodox Christianity should rightly call Mary Theotokos.
