A Summary On Jesus And Mary

Christianity is one of the oldest religions in the world, full of symbolism and historical figures that have caught the attention of many groups of people. Jesus Christ is the most talked about and most analyzed person from the Christian Bible, however, Mary has also been the topic of conversation for many, many time periods. She was once regarded as just the mother of Jesus, but as time went on and people began to look at her role in Christianity as a whole, she began to take on other roles including Mother of God, Mediatrix, and even Mother of all Christians. It is important for all Christians to analyze the origins of ideas in order to best understand how Biblical figures came to be known as the way we understand them to be today. Thus is the case with Mary. By tracing the understanding of Mary from the beginning of Christianity to today’s current society, we can better connect with past cultures and ideas.

When Christianity was first started, believers were focused on the martyrs around them who were dying for their newly found Christian beliefs. Once people saw the impact that Christianity had on its followers, they began to pay more attention to the Bible, more particularly to the New Testament and the roles of Jesus and Mary. There were not many things known about Mary except what was said in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John about her life, which were very few in detail. According to Miri Rubin, a medieval historian and professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, the reason the gospels did not offer many details about Mary’s early life was because “their aim was rather to introduce Jesus, and so Mary enters the frame as a maiden about to receive the Annunciation.” Mary is never ment...

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...astically as the times went along. At first, people didn’t pay much attention to who she was because there weren’t many details given about her, but once people began to question the divinity and humanistic qualities of Jesus, they realized they had to also ask who Mary really was. In answering that Jesus is a divine-being with human-like qualities born from a human, the answer that Mary was the Mother of God followed. Mary was associated with nurturing, and caring motherly qualities and people honored these qualities in her. Honoring her became a normal thing to do in Christianity with the adaptations in art, the creation of shrines, and the prayers created and said. People were able to better connect with their religion through better understanding of not only Jesus, but the woman who gave us the savior of the world, Mary, Queen of Heaven and Virgin Mother of God.