Evangelicals and Mary

The Febuary issue of First Things includes a great article by Timothy George, "Evangelicals and the Mother of God."  It's not on the website yet, but it's worth keeping an eye out for it.   It explores "five explicit aspects of [Mary's] calling and ministry" that George thinks are need to be considered in an "evangelical retrieval of a proper biblical theology of Mary":  "Mary as the daughter of Israel, as the virgin mother of Jesus, as Theotokos, as the handmaiden of the Word, and as the mother of the Church.  The article ends with:

Can there be a proper place for Mary in the prayer and devotional life of evangelicals?  The early Protestant Reformers of the sixteenth century thought so.  Evangelicals do not pray to Mary, but we can learn to pray like Mary and with Mary -- with Mary and all the saints.  Evangelicals can join in with all Christians in a prayer like this:  "And now we give you thanks, Heavenly Father, because in choosing the Blessed Virgin Mary to be the mother of your Son, you exalted the little ones and the lowly.  Your angel greeted her as highly favored; and with all generations we call her blessed and with her we rejoice and we magnify your holy name."

Lisa