Exploring Marian imagery from the late nineteenth century to today, a theologian and an art historian trace how depictions of Our Lady reflect shifting cultural, theological, and social contexts – revealing the enduring power and controversy of Mary in art

One of the insights of the Theologies of Liberation is that theology always has to be contextual and historical. The view that theology is somehow removed from history or its setting; that is somehow ‘absolute’ or pure, is now rarely expressed, although perhaps it is still an underlying attitude.

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