From: Commonweal | Date: November 8, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 Commonweal Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

I am not certain whether this book was given its title to match Pelikan's earlier work Jesus through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture (Yale, 1985), or in the hope of attracting a wider readership, but either way it was unfortunate. I spent the first half of my reading fretting irritably at Pelikan's extremely narrow understanding of culture. It was only when I realized that the author was intending something altogether different from what this title implies that I began to relax. It should have been called Mary through the Centuries: Her Role in the Development of ...

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