CV NEWS FEED // Catholic Answers has released a new book that explains the scriptural basis for Catholic reverence of the Virgin Mary to Evangelicals.
According to a December 6 Christian Wire news release, the expansive media ministry Catholic Answers has launched a new book, Bible Mary: the Mother of Jesus in the Word of God, by Fr. John Wais, a priest of the personal prelature of Opus Dei.
Director of publishing for Catholic Answers Press Todd Aglialoro stated:
Mary is so often an obstacle for Protestants, or the medicine they think they have to swallow if they want to become Catholic. But nothing is farther from the truth. Bible Mary shows Protestants and Catholics alike that our beliefs about Mary are part of a beautiful, integrated whole of biblical truth.
“When faithful Protestants start feeling themselves drawn toward Catholicism, there’s often one thing they stumble over: Catholic teaching about Mary, the mother of Jesus,” the press release stated, continuing:
Fr. John Waiss presents a rich and scripturally faithful portrait of the one whom the angel Gabriel called “blessed among women.” More than a pious devotional, more than a collection of prooftexts to throw back at objectors to the usual Marian doctrines, Bible Mary is the first popular, accessible book to plunge deep into God’s written word to build up a comprehensive Mariology that makes sense to Protestants.
The work begins with a foundational account of scriptural “patterns of type and fulfillment from the Old Testament to the New. Wais then progresses through the fundamental disparities between Protestant and Catholic teachings about Mary.
“In so doing,” the release concluded, “he does more than give the standard apologetic answers—he builds a positive case, revealing how Mary is not a biblical appendage or afterthought but a central figure from the beginning of salvation history.”
Catholic Answers has the new book available here.
