What Are They Saying About Mary Today: A Review of Current Literature

Abstract

Keeping track of the theology concerned with the Virgin Mary is as demanding as it is for «systematics» (also known as doctrinal theology) in general. Much has happened in Mariology in the half-century since the 2nd Vatican Council. In a 1994 review of German language studies on our Lady the Swiss-born head of the International Marian Research Institute at the Marian Library (University of Dayton, Ohio), Johann Roten, SM, commented on the almost exponential growth of Mariological activity in the span of two decades, from timid retrieval in 1973 to 1993. We could extend that cut-off date to the present.