Mary: Theology, Culture, Devotion & Theotokos: The Theotokos

Many understand that this Synod was about the condemnation of Nestorius's teaching, but few may realize that the arguments centered around the use of the term Theotokos, or "Mother of God," for the Blessed Virgin Mary. This was so much the case that Bishop Kallistos (Ware) has written: "The same primacy that the word homoousion occupies in the doctrine of the Trinity, the word Theotokos holds in the doctrine of the Incarnation." (The Orthodox Church, p. 25)

by St. Gregory of Palamas

by Archpriest George Florovsky

by Fr. John Hainsworth

by Fr. Peter E. Gillquist

by St. Gregory the Wonderworker

by St. Gregory Palamas

by Fr. Demetrios Serfes

by Miriam Lambouras

by Saint John of Shanghai & San Francisco

Chapter in Google Books - "The Friend of the Bridegroom: On the Orthodox Veneration of the Forerunner," by Sergius Bulgakov.

from Hamatoura Monastery, Lebanon

From the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College. This translation of this Apocalypse is made from the text as published by M. R. James in Texts and Studies, ii., 3, from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library, which he assigns to the eleventh century. The original he assigns to the ninth century, and regards it as a late and clumsy compilation based on (1) the Assumption Legends and (2) the Apocalypse of Paul.

by Charles Barber

From "Mother of God; Representations of the Virgin in Byzantine Art"
Edited by Maria Vassilaki.

from St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral

By Protopresbyter Michael Polsky