This volume, which is dedicated to Fr. Edward D. O'Connor, CSC, contains essays highlighting the historical development of Mariology during the "Marian century", by major ressourcement theologians, whose reflections decisively influenced the development of the Lumen Gentium, as well as Marian modalities emerging in the Catholic Church of that time.
The essays unanimously stress that the Blessed Virgin Mary is not merely a peripheral figure in Christian faith and in the panorama of theology.