The Definitive Guide for Solving Biblical Questions About Mary: Mary Among the Evangelists

by Christiaan W. Kappes, William Albrecht

Some books hope to persuade the reader by reasoned arguments that might stand up to scrutiny. Conversely, this work simply reveals the meaning of Scripture to its lover and provides every Christian with a straightforward and irrefutable key to understand Mary’s role and dignity in salvation history according to the Evangelists in their Gospels. After seeing the evidence organized in an easy-to-read way, arcane arguments, long dividing Christians, simply become irrelevant as the reader experiences the Scriptures revealing themselves in their fullness. Who are Jesus’s brothers and sisters? Who are his family members who opposed his ministry? Does Scripture teach Mary’s perpetual virginity? What is Joseph’s family tree? Why do Jesus and Mary sometimes appear to be at odds in the New Testament? Each and every question does not require a torturously reasoned argument to some purportedly probable conclusion. Rather, each question is plainly answered by reading the Scriptures through their own dependence on prior Scripture as key to their meaning and interpretation.

173 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 7, 2020

Reviews

[Jeff Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a serious deep-dive into scriptural texts relating to Mary and the typology and allusions to the Old Testament concerning her.

I have heard and read a fair amount of apologetics and this book aids and goes beyond them. These are not just standard boilerplate replies but a deeper look-at or the rediscovering of patristic sources concerning her.

[Pacitti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mindblowingly smart, thoroughly orthodox and groundbreaking, Fr. Kappes & William Albrecht bring us a completely new way (for 21st century Westerners) to look at Mary Among the Evangelists, which is actually pretty ancient since they show how the answer to understand the Virgin Mary in the Bible is in an in-depth study of the sources used by the Gospel authors, namely, the Old Testament (in Greek).

Father Kappes reads the Bible like a Greek and William Albrecht is a master in all things patristics and early Church, and so they make an unstoppable exegetical team, demonstrating convincingly how Mary is:
- The New Abraham & Sarah
- The New Mother of Samson
- The New Hannah
- The New Daughter of Jephtah
- The New Ark of the New Covenant
- The New Man Full of Grace from Sirach
- The New Widow of Sarepta
- The First One to Hear the Word of God and Keep It
- a Doer of God's Will
- a perpetual virgin

I've learned so much reading this book and my love for Our Lady has only grown. I can guarantee you: there's no other book on Mary even remotely similar to this one. They bring new material and fresh new translations, and there's no mere repeating of what other Marian apologetics books usually say.

[Rev Reads · Rating 1 out of 5]

This may go down as one of the ten worst books I will read in my life. I am shocked this book made it past editors. From unsubstantiated claims to confusing writing, this book was not good. If you want to read a book on the Roman Catholic view of Mary, read Brant Pitre's book, Jesus and the Jewish Book of Mary. This book helps prove the Protestant claims that the RC view of Mary is built on illogical reasoning and finding evidence where no evidence truly exists.