The Black Virgin

A Marian Mystery

By Jean Hani

196 pp

$18.95

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The Black Virgin

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Hani interprets the Black Virgin through the theological category of the Marian Mystery, using Lourdes as a hermeneutical point of departure. He analyzes symbolic, liturgical, and doctrinal aspects that clarify the icon’s meaning.

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About the Book

Jean Hani’s The Black Virgin: A Marian Mystery differs from his previous writings through its sharper theological focus. In Hani’s view, the key to the enigma of the Black Virgin was given at Lourdes by Mary herself: in declaring herself the Immaculate Conception, she initiated us into the Marian Mystery in all its profundity. And it is precisely through an apprehension of the Mystery as a whole that the ultimate meaning of the Black Virgin can be grasped. Chapters include: The Black Icon — Regina Mundi —The Mother of God — “I am Black but Beautiful” — Woman.

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“Through his research into hidden or lost meanings, Jean Hani has revealed and restored to our attention the most ‘initiatic’ dimensions of the Christian religion.”— JEAN BORELLA,author of The Secret of the Christian Way, and The Crisis of Religious Symbolism