02 · The Scriptural Witness

The canonical foundation of Orthodox Mariology: what the Gospels and Acts actually say about the Mother of God, and — with equal care — what they leave unsaid. This section walks the New Testament witness in narrative order and then draws the source-critical line that governs the rest of the collection, distinguishing what Scripture attests from what later tradition supplies.

Tradition: Pan-Orthodox

Before any dogma, feast, icon, or hymn can be weighed, the scriptural ground must be laid bare. These two files do that. The first gathers the positive witness; the second inventories it against its silences and names the non-canonical sources — above all the Protoevangelium of James and the transitus literature — from which the rest of the Marian tradition descends, handing off to the flagship methodology of section 05.

Files in this section

  • Mary in the Gospels and Acts — a scene-by-scene walk through the canonical witness: the Annunciation and fiat, the Visitation and Magnificat, the Nativity, the Presentation and Symeon’s sword, Cana, the sayings on kinship, the Cross, and the Upper Room — with the Fathers’ New Eve and “Woman” typology throughout.
  • What Scripture Says — and What It Does Not — the sober inventory of what the canon records and its striking silences (Mary’s parents, birth, Temple childhood, betrothal, death), and where the fuller traditions actually come from. Distinguishes dogma, received liturgical tradition, and theologoumenon.

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