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A Critical Note on Norman Pittenger's Mariology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Owen F. Cummings
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In his ecumenical Marian theology, Fr. George H. Tavard has a fine chapter entitled “Mary in Anglicanism,” in which he traces the development of Marian teaching from Thomas Cranmer to the present. Tavard’s essay is not intended to be comprehensive and so. while he maintains that it would be “an exaggeration to speak of a Marian movement in contemporary Anglicanism,” nonetheless significant contributions have been made in recent times, for example, by Canon Donald Allchin and Professor John Macquanie. Had the nonagenarian Anglican priest-theologian Norman Pittenger’s Our Lady, The Mother of Jesus in Christian Faith and Devotion been published before 1996, no doubt Fr. Tavard would have included some mention of it as yet another contemporary Anglican contribution.

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New Blackfriars , Volume 78 , Issue 917-918 , July 1997 , pp. 336 - 339
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Copyright © 1997 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 George, H. Tavard, The Thousand Faces of the Blessed Virgin, Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1996, pp. 134–152.2. Published in London by SCM Press, 1996.Google Scholar

3 “This is my last book …,” op. cit., p. ix.

4 Norris, R. A., ed., Lux in Lumine: Essays to Honor W. Norman Pittenger, New York: The Seabury Press, 1966, p. 2.Google Scholar

5 Op. cit., pp. 2–22.

6 Op. cit., pp. 6, 28.

7 ibid., p. 10.

8 Ibid., p. 14.

9 For example, Macquarrie, John, Mary for All Christians, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990Google Scholar; Jarosiav, J. Pelikan, Mary Through the Centuries, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, especially pp. 189–214.Google Scholar

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13 Ibid., p. 25.

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15 ibid. p. 47. Pittenger's book, Life As Eucharist, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1973, offers a good summary of his eucharistic theology.Google Scholar

16 Op. cit., p. 47.

17 Ibid., p. 52.

18 Ibid., pp. 18, 23, 83.

19 See pp. 54, 86.

20 Theology and the Gospel of Christ,London: S.P.C.K., 1977, p. 130Google Scholar. See also Mascall's remarks in his essay, “Guide‐Lines from St. Thomas for Theology Today,” in St. Thomas Aquinas, 1274–1974, Commemorative Studies, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1974, pp. 489–501, especially pp. 494–495.